^{9 Ref} for the word of promise `is' this; `According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.'

^{10 Ref} And not only `so', but also Rebecca, having conceived by one -- Isaac our father --

^{11 Ref} (for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --

^{12 Ref} `The greater shall serve the less;'

^{13 Ref} according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'