But you should not—rather, it means, and can only mean, “And look not (that is, gaze not with pleasure) on the day of your brother in th…

10-16.— THE DIVINE SENTENCE JUSTIFIED BY EDOM’S GUILT.

The Prophet enumerates here the kinds of cruelty that the Idumeans exercised towards the Church of God, the children of Abraham, their own kindred.…

But you should not have looked on the day of your brother, &c.] The day of his calamity, distress, and destruction, as af…

This prophecy is against Edom. Its destruction seems to have been typical, like their father Esau's rejection, and appears to refer to the destruct…