a doubt one and the same case, the difficulty of the question why the one died in one way, and the other in another, is solved by the apostle as it were by not solving it; for, when he had proposed something of the same kind about two twins, seeing that it was said (not of works, since they had not as yet done anything either of good or of evil, but of Him that calleth), “The elder shall serve the younger,”1 and, “Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated;”2 and he had prolonged the horror of this