[997] For proof of this see above, pp. [331] f.
[998] “Mal.” iii. 16.
[999] iii. 2, 19 ff. Heb., iv. 1 ff. Eng.
[1000] iii. 6.
[1001] i. 11.
[1003] See above, [Chapter XIV.] on “Edom and Israel.”
[1004] Heb. xii. 16.
[1005] Romans ix. 13. The citation is from the LXX.: τὸν Ἰακὼβ ἠγάπησα, τὸν δὲ Ἠσαῦ ἐμίσησα.
[1006] This was mainly after the beginning of exile. Shortly before that Deut. xxiii. 7 says: Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother.