| Table of Contents | Words: Alphabetical - Frequency - Inverse - Length - Statistics | Help | IntraText Library |
| H.L. Ellison” Old Testament prophets IntraText CT - Text |
The supreme proof of God’s love to the Jew was His choice of Jacob in grace. “ Malachi” points out that the same principle was operating in his own day, for even if the Jew was weak, Edom was weaker still. For the situation mirrored here see p. 96.
“But Esau I hated” (ver. 3) — as Snaith has pointed out (The Distinctive Ideas of the Old Testament, ch. VI.) the love of God in the Old Testament is, above all, election love. Since in old Hebrew there were no intermediate shades, not to elect, not to love, was to hate.