To offer brave assistance 1
To Lives that stand alone－
When One has failed to stop them－
Is Human－but Divine
To lend an Ample Sinew 5
Unto a Nameless Man－
Whose Homely Benediction
No other－stopped to earn－
To Lives that stand alone－
When One has failed to stop them－
Is Human－but Divine
To lend an Ample Sinew 5
Unto a Nameless Man－
Whose Homely Benediction
No other－stopped to earn－
(F.492/J.767)
[1–4] One has failed to stop them:: Abraham bravely tried to stop the Lord to destroy Sodom but failed.
[5–8] Jacob wrestled with a nameless man in the ford Jabbok, who blessed him and said that Jacob had prevailed men and God. Abrahma and Jocob both dared to contend with God, and received blessing.
(Genesis 18:32) And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
(Genesis 32:28) And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
(Genesis 32:29) And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.