was not Esau Jacobs brother] Consider the principall effect of my love, in that of meer grace I have chosen you to be my people in your father Jacob; rejecting Esau his brother, equall in all other things to him: whereupon all my blessings have dropped downe upon you, as your preservation, deliverance from captivitie, and reestablishment: whereof the Edomites have not been partakers. loved Jacob] Romans 9:13.