As it is written,
Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
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Gennadius of Constantinople
AD 471
It was many years after the event that Scripture testified to this in the words of the prophet Haggai [Malachi]. Paul added this quotation because he wanted to show that God’s judgment is just, for while it was in accordance with his foreknowledge, the lives of both men later followed these different paths. .
