“... The name Israel. . . means a man who overcomes power, for Is-ra is "a man who overcomes," and El is "power." That Christ would do this when he became man was thus foretold by the mystery of Jacob's wrestling with him who appeared to him ... For after he became man... Christ was approached by the Devil (that power which is also called Serpent and Satan), who tempted him and tried to overcome him by de­ manding that he worship him. But he was utterly crushed and overcome by Christ, who convicted him of his wickedness when... he asked to be adored as God, thus be­ coming an apostate from the will of God. This was his reply: "It is written: The Lord your God shall you worship and him only shall you serve." Defeated and rebuked, the Devil then departed. (Dial 125.3-4) There can hardly be any doubt that Justin is here drawing a second time on the same source he was using in the previous passage. That he is inserting material from this source at this point of the Dialogue is actually beyond doubt, because the idea of the quoted passage is utterly at odds with Justins own ideas in the context. According to Justin, the man fighting with Jacob was Christ— according to Justin's general principle that all the theophanies of the Bible were really appearances of the Son. But in the passage quoted here, the man is a type of the Devil, or perhaps identical with the Devil, and it is Jacob who plays the role of Christ. Justin's struggles to unite these entirely different interpretations of Gen 32 are written all over Dial. 125. I mention one final passage that very likely derives from the same source: ...”