CONCERNING THE TRINITY. 347 bat God also. CertainlyJacob saw God, with whom he wrestled,althoughhe was holdingthe man inhisown wrestle. And in order that there might stillbe no hesitation,He Himself laiddown the interpretationby saying," Because thou hast prevailedwith God, and art powerfulwith men." For which reason the same Jacob, perceivingalreadythe forceof the Sacrament, and apprehending the authorityof Him with whom he had wrestled,calledthe name of that place in which he had wrestledthe Vision of God. He, moreover,superaddedthe reason forhisinterpretationbeing offeredof the Visionof God : " For I have seen,"saidhe, " God faceto face,and my soulhas been saved." Moreover, he saw God, with whom he wrestledas with a man ; but still indeed he held the man as a conqueror,though as an inferior he asked a blessingas from God. Thus he wrestledwith God and with man ; and thus trulywas that strugglepre figured,and in the Gospel was fulfilled,between Christand the people of Jacob, wherein,although the people had the mastery,yet it proved to be inferiorby being shown to be guilty. Who willhesitateto acknowledge that Christ,in whom thistype of a wrestlewas fulfilled,was not man only, but God also,sinceeven thatvery type of a wrestleseems to have proved Him man and God ? And yet,even after this,the same divine Scripturejustlydoes not cease to call the Angel God, and to pronounce God the Angel. For when this very Jacob was about to bless Manasseh and Ephraim, the sonsof Joseph,with his hands placed across on the heads of the lads,he said," The God which fed me from my youth even unto thisday,the Angel who delivered me from allevils,blessthese lads."1 Even to such a point does he affirmthe same Being to be an Angel, whom he had called God, as in the end of his discourse,to expressthe person of whom he was speaking as one, when he said " bless1 these lads." For if he had meant the one to be understood as God, and the other as an angel, he would have comprisedthe two personsin the pluralnumber ; but now he definedthe singularnumber of one person in the 1Gen.xlviii.14,15. 2Benedicat.