He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
⛓ Read Genesis 32 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Israelites' derives identity from Jacob's renaming as Israel, the eponymous ancestor of the covenant people Paul claims membership in. The link is etymological/identitarian rather than a textual citation. Marked low.
Low confidenceJacob renamed Israel after the encounter at the Jabbok is a second instance of the divine-renaming pattern behind Simon to Cephas (v.42), and anticipates the Jacob/Israel motifs that culminate in v.51. Low and contested as a direct source.
Low confidence'Of the stock of Israel' evokes the renaming of Jacob as Israel, the patronym of the chosen people Paul claims as his birthright. Faint background to the ethnic boast.
Low confidence