Malachi 1:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Loved you — Both personally considered and relatively, in progenitors. Us — Who have been captives, and groaned under it all our days 'till of late. Was not Esau — Did not one father beget them, and one mother bear them? I loved Jacob — I preferred him to the birthright, and this of free love. I loved his person, and his posterity.