p. 2 | 2485.-Esau a Murderer by Uriah Smith

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 29, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 18.

2485.—Esau a Murderer.

By Uriah Smith

Was not Esau a murderer at heart from the time he said he would kill Jacob as soon as the days of mourning for Isaac were ended, or until he went out to meet him on his return, with four hundred armed men?

H. S.

If he really hated his brother during that time, according to 1 John 3: 15, he was a murderer at heart. "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him." He showed when he started out with the armed men that his object was revenge against Jacob. Jacob himself felt this to be the case, and not until God came to him at the brook Jabbok did Jacob have the courage to go forward. Then God turned the heart of Esau toward his brother.