On Vox: Jacob I loved, Esau I hated

[lightmanx5]

I was talking with David Horning this evening about a Bible verse, so I started to do a little reading...

Here is what Matthew Henry has to say about Luke 14:26:

[1.] Every good man loves his relations; and yet, if he be a disciple of Christ, he must comparatively hate them, must love them less than Christ, as Leah is said to be

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[masticatus]

Well, the whole comparative thing is something we add to the scripture to try to make sense of a contradiction. What I was trying to explain on Tuesday was that the Jacob/Esau comparison is a comparison, but the "hate" there is an "opposition to