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What "Hated" Means Here
Commentators clarify that "hated" does not mean God had an emotional hatred for Esau. Instead, it signifies that Esau was "rejected" or "loved less" in God's sovereign plan. As John Gill notes, this was a "negative" hatred—a denial of the special covenant grace given to Jacob. God chose to build His covenant people through Jacob's line, not Esau's.
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Malachi
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Albert Barnes
On Malachi 1:3
18th Century
Theologian
And I made his mountains a waste, and his heritage for the jackals of the wilderness.
Malachi attests the first stage of ful…
John Calvin
On Malachi 1:2–6
16th Century
Theologian
I am compelled by the context to read all these verses, for the sense cannot be otherwise completed. God expostulates here with a perverse and ungr…
John Gill
On Malachi 1:3
17th Century
Pastor
And I hated Esau
Or, "rejected" him, as the Targum; did not love him as Jacob: this was a negative, not positive hat…
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Matthew Henry
On Malachi 1:1–5
17th Century
Minister
All advantages, either as to outward circumstances, or spiritual privileges, come from the free love of God, who makes one differ from another. All…