Malachi 1:2 (WEB)
“I have loved you,” says the LORD. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the LORD, “Yet I loved Jacob;
Fathers and councils · 6
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Our God, one and the same, is also their God, who knows hidden things, who knoweth all things before they can come to pass; and for this reason has He said, “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 13; Mal. i. 2.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…all them that work iniquity,’ and ‘The Lord loveth the gates of Sion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob;’ and, ‘Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated;’ and in Isaiah there is the voice of God again saying, ‘I the Lord love righteousness, and hate robbery of unrighteousness.’” — editor's note: Mal. i. 2, 3.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For whence when Rebecca was yet pregnant, and in womb was bearing twins, was it said, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated”?” — editor's note: Mal. i. 2; Rom. ix. 13.
Read the whole comment“And in reference to this matter he quotes another prophetic testimony: “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 13; Mal. i. 2, 3
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Jerome
“…allow that it is loved in one and hated in another because of its past actions, before in Jacob it becomes a supplanter and before in Esau it is supplanted?”” — editor's note: Mal. i. 2, 3.
Read the whole comment“Bring a yet graver charge against God and ask Him why, when Esau and Jacob were still in the womb, He said: “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”” — editor's note: Mal. i. 2, 3; Rom. ix. 13.
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 98.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 98.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 98.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 98.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 98.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 98.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 98.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 98.
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.