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Psalms 47:4

He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430
5. "He hath chosen an inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob, whom He loved" (ver. 4). A certain beauty of Jacob He hath chosen for our inheritance. Esau and Jacob were two brothers; in their mother's womb both struggled, and by this struggle their mother's bowels were shaken; and while they two were yet therein, the younger was elected and preferred to the elder, and it was said, "Two peoples are in thy womb, and the elder shall serve the younger." Among all nations is the elder, among all nations the younger; but the younger is in good Christians, elect, godly, faithful; the elder in the proud, unworthy, sinful, stubborn, defending rather than confessing their sins: as was also the very people of the Jews, "being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness." But for that it is said, "The elder shall serve the younger;" it is manifest that under the godly are subdued the ungodly, under the humble are subdued the proud. Esau was born first...

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Beauty. The temple, Ezechiel xxiv. 21. Both Jews and Gentiles form the Church.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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