erum de Esau et Jacob docet sic dicens. Cum necdum nati essent, nec aliquid fecissent boni vel mali (Rom. 9. 12.). Pueri igitur, sicut ipsa divina Scriptura perdocuit, quasi penitus innoxii, neque malitiam prorsus experti, boni etiam, vel mali discretionem ignorantes, ignis aeter…

: Ἐδεῖτο δὲ Ἰσαὰκ περὶ Ῥεβέκκας τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ, ὅτι στεῖρα ἦν: καὶ συνέλαβεν. Gen. 25, 22-23 cf. Rom. 9, 10-12 εἶτα ἐξῆλθεν Ῥεβέκκα πυθέσθαι παρὰ κυρίου, καὶ εἶπεν κύριος πρὸς αὐτήν: Δύο ἔθνη ἐν τῇ γαστρί σου καὶ δύο λαοὶ ἐν τῇ κοιλίᾳ σου, καὶ ὑπερέξει λαὸς λαοῦ καὶ ὁ μείζων…

d to her, 'The older will serve the younger.' As it is written, 'Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.'" (Romans 9:11-13; Malachi 1:1-2). Therefore, it is clear in this example, and in Jacob, who was loved and chosen without any merits and yet was similarly subject to original sin, th…