Genesis 32:1
Jacob also went on the journey he had begun: and the angels of God met him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Jacob quoque abiit itinere quo cœperat : fueruntque ei obviam angeli Dei.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ Ἰακὼβ ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ὁδόν· καὶ ἀναβλέψας τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς ἴδεν παρεμβολὴν θεοῦ παρεμβεβληκυῖαν, καὶ συνήντησαν αὐτῷ οἱ ἄγγελοι τοῦ θεοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Genesis 32:2
- וְיַעֲקֹ֖ב הָלַ֣ךְ לְדַרְכּ֑וֹ וַיִּפְגְּעוּ ב֖וֹ מַלְאֲכֵ֥י אֱלֹהִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Angels. Guardians of Chanaan and Mesopotamia. (Jarchi.)
The latter escorted him as far as the torrent Jaboc. That angels guard different provinces, is well attested, Daniel xii. 1, and Acts xvi. 9. (Calmet)
Michael protected Chanaan and the people of God. (Diodorus of Tarsus.) (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.