Luke 14:26

Verse Luke 14:26. And hate not] Matthew, Matthew 10:37, expresses the true meaning of this word, when he says, He who loveth his father and mother MORE than me. In Matthew 6:24, he uses the word hate in the same sense. When we read, Romans 9:13, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated, the meaning is simply, I have loved Jacob - the Israelites, more than Esau-the Edomites; and that this is no arbitrary interpretation of the word hate, but one agreeable to the Hebrew idiom, appears from what is said on Genesis 29:30-1, where Leah's being hated is explained by Rachel's being loved more than Leah. See also Deuteronomy 21:15-5; and Bishop Pearce on this place. See also Clarke's notes on "Matthew 10:37".