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Passages similar to: Aurora — Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God.
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Aurora
Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (38)
Wrestle with him, as the holy patriarch Jacob did, [Gen. xxxii.] who wrestled with him all the night, till the dawning of the day, or morning redness broke forth, and would not give over till God had blessed him. Do thou so likewise with him, and the Holy Ghost will get a form in thee.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXXII (17)
And the Lord appeared to him by night and blessed him and said unto him : ' " Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel shall they name thy name....
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 24: Of True Repentance: How the poor Sinner may come to God again in his Covenant, and how he may be released of his Sins. The Gate of the Justification of a poor Sinner before God. A clear Looking-Glass. (30)
Thou must continue steadfast in this resolute Purpose; and though thou gettest no Virtue [or Strength] into thy Heart, and though the Devil also...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 14: Of the Birth and Propagation of Man. The very Secret Gate. (37)
Therefore he wrestles in many a Man (that is of a strong Complexion, in whom the Virgin does often behold herself) so very hard, continually supposing...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter V: Philosophy the Handmaid of Theology. (7)
These things show that that wisdom can be acquired through instruction, to which Abraham attained, passing from the contemplation of heavenly things...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XIX (27)
" Jacob, my beloved son, whom my soul loveth, may God bless thee from above the firmament, and may He give thee all the blessings wherewith He...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXXI (24)
And Jacob told his father everything during the night, how the Lord had shown him great mercy, and how He had prospered (him in) all his ways, and pro...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXXI (22)
And he blessed them. And (Jacob) rested there with Isaac his father that night, and they ate and drank with joy.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXXI (25)
More probably the reference is to the historical David. 1 i. e. the name of the Jewish people. Rebecca journeys with Jacob to Bethel (xxxi. -).
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXII (11)
And he drew near and kissed him, and he said : " Blessed be my son Jacob And all the sons of God Most High, unto all the ages : May God give unto thee...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 19: Of the Entering of the Souls to God, and of the wicked Souls Entering into Perdition. Of the Gate of the Body's Breaking off [or Parting] from the Soul. (54)
But concerning the feigned Masses for Souls which the hearty Pressing in to God, that is altogether false, and stands in Babel; it helps the Soul litt...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXV (14)
John xiv. , xv. , xvi. (rb vvtvua tiji AxnffUr) ; a variant reading here is " Holy Spirit."
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 26: That without full special grace, or long use in common grace, the work of this book is right travailous; and in this work, which is the work of the soul helped by grace, and which is the work of only God (4)
Do on then fast; let see how thou bearest thee. Seest thou not how He standeth and abideth thee? For shame! Travail fast but awhile, and thou shalt...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XIX (14)
H Abraham loves Jacob and blesses him (xix. -).
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXIII (1)
And he placed two fingers of Jacob on his eyes, and he blessed the God of gods, and he covered his face and stretched out his feet and slept the sleep...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXVII (27)
Jacob's Marriage to Leah and Rachel ; his Children and Riches (xxviii. -; cf. Gen. xxix., xxx., xxxi. -).
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXXII (21)
And he saw in a vision of the night, and behold an angel descended from heaven with seven tablets in his hands, and he gave them to Jacob, and he read...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXXI (31)
And Jacob remembered the prayer with which his father had blessed him and his two sons, Levi and Judali, and he rejoiced and blessed the God of his fa...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 2: A short stirring to meekness, and to the work of this book (2)
Do on then, I pray thee, fast. Look now forwards and let be backwards; and see what thee faileth, and not what thou hast, for that is the readiest...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXIX (4)
And Jacob blessed the God of Isaac his father, and the God of Abraham his father's father, and he arose and mounted his wives and his children, and to...
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