Wrestling: Figurative
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Genesis 30:8
And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
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Genesis 32:24,25
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
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Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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The Potter and the Clay
... without either wire-drawing scripture on the one hand, or wrestling it from ... born
again, or born from above." These are not barely figurative expressions, or ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the potter and the clay.htm

Aaron, his Office no Palliation of his Sin, 61.
... the, predicted, [202]205; reality of, how proved, [203]205; figurative descriptions
of in ... Wrestling, illustration from the practice of trainers in, [464]228. ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/aaron his office no palliation.htm

Rom. xvi. 5
... being not an alien only to his country and his family, but in wrestling with famine ...
If so meant it might be figurative, but it most likely refers either to an ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xxxi rom xvi 5.htm

Concerning Justification.
... But, moreover, [justified] in this figurative sense is used for approved; and indeed ...
conformity to the outward letter of the law; and so wrestling and striving ...
/.../proposition vii concerning justification.htm

Sin is Spiritual Slavery
... The term "spiritual" is too often taken to mean unreal, fanciful, figurative. ... Whoever
will enter upon that process of self-wrestling and self-conflict which ...
/.../shedd/sermons to the natural man/sin is spiritual slavery.htm

The Unity of the Divine Essence in Three Persons Taught, in ...
... The same thing is intimated by Hosea, who, after mentioning the wrestling of Jacob ...
17:5), he certainly could not be an external or figurative splendour, but ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 13 the unity of.htm

Introductory Notice Respecting Tauler's Life and Times
The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler. <. ...
/.../introductory notice respecting taulers life.htm

The Pharisee and the Publican
The Pharisee And Publican. <. ...
/.../bunyan/the pharisee and publican/the pharisee and the publican.htm

Mr. Bunyan's Last Sermon:
... AND A. SKETCH OF HIS LIFE, TIMES, AND CONTEMPORARIES. VOLUME THIRD. ALLEGORICAL,
FIGURATIVE, AND SYMBOLICAL. EDITED BY. GEORGE OFFOR, ESQ. ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/mr bunyans last sermon .htm

A Discourse Upon the Pharisee and the Publican
The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3. <. ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a discourse upon the pharisee.htm

Resources
Who was Naphtali in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

What are the different names for the Israelites, and what do they mean? | GotQuestions.org

Does the Bible give any one individual spiritual authority over another individual? | GotQuestions.org

Wrestling: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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