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Scofield Reference Index
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Thompson Chain Reference
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The Topic Concordance
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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
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American Tract Society
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Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
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Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
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Holman Bible Dictionary
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
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King James Dictionary
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
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Webster Dictionary
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• ܣܳܢܶܐ
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• μισέω
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To hate is not always to be understood rigorously, but frequently signifies merely a less degree of love. "If a man have two wives, one beloved and another hated," Deuteronomy 21:15; that is, less beloved. Our Saviour says that he who would follow him must hate father and mother; that is, he must love them less than Christ, less than his own salvation, and not prefer them to God. "Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated;" that is, have deprived of the privileges of his primogeniture, through his own profanity; and visited him with severe judgment on account of his sins.