{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-4046","native_reference":{"book_number":520,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":11,"verse_to":11},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p>Origen de Principiis Book II</p><p>But even holy Scripture does not appear to me to be altogether silent on the nature of this secret, as when the Apostle Paul, in discussing the case of Jacob and Esau, says: \"For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him who calleth, it was said, The elder shall serve the younger, as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.\"[167]</p><p>Origen Commentary on John Book II</p><p>l my eighth, and I am Israel and archangel of the power of the Lord and a chief captain among the sons of God? Am not I Israel, the first minister in the sight of God, and I invoked my God by the inextinguishable name? \"It is likely that this was really said by Jacob, and was therefore written down, and that there is also a deeper meaning in what we are told, \"He supplanted his brother in the womb.\" Consider whether the celebrated question about Jacob and Esau has a solution. We read,[99]</p>","source_html_sha256":"ba231593d67e947f7c3c1e447ce8c20b2c1cc4da1f7e1c5d2fc6c19dcff60749","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":4046,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"3e8714b95a67f56bb9542e3aa8c7c3b8c711c1ec7c71b7286dee0d52e72835d2","translator":null,"work":null}