Moyses van Wtenbrouck, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1623, oil on panel. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University.   Gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader, 2013 (56-003.33)

Moyses van Wtenbrouck, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1623, oil on panel. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University.
Gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader, 2013 (56-003.33)

‘The Stories Behind the Paintings’.
This Sunday we begin a series that begins with a current exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and looks at the biblical stories interpreted by these amazing paintings.

First in this series is the story of Jacob wrestling all night till daybreak with a stranger, later declaring ‘I have seen God face to face’ (Genesis 32:24-31).
There are many layers to this painting and to this story: the fact that the Holy One chooses to come to Jacob the swindler and deceiver; the dimension of the human encounter with the Holy One as a struggle; the stranger providing Jacob with a new name and a new beginning. With Jacob lunging forward and grasping the stranger, perhaps most developed in this painting by van Wtenbrouck is the determination of Jacob not to let the stranger go until the stranger blesses him.

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