I have loved you,
says the LORD.
Yet you say, How have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother?
says the LORD:
yet I loved Jacob,
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Richard Challoner
AD 1781
I have loved Jacob: I have preferred his posterity, to make them my chosen people, and to lead them with my blessings, without any merit on their part, and though they have been always ungrateful; whilst I have rejected Esau, and executed severe judgments upon his posterity. Not that God punished Esau, or his posterity, beyond their desert: but that by his free election and grace he loved Jacob, and favoured his posterity above their deserts.