John Chrysostom

"For ye know" (he says) "how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected. For he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." What now is this? Doth he indeed exclude repentance? By no means. But how, you say, was it that "he found no place of repentance"? For if he condemned himself, if he made a great wailing, why did he "find no place of repentance"? Because it was not really a case of repentance. …

Homily on Hebrews 31 ↗

Theophylact of Ohrid

He was rejected by the words of his father: "Behold, I have made him lord... what then shall I do for you, my son?" (Gen. 27:37). Some, however, explain that he "was rejected" by God. So then, first, he was rejected by God. For God was the cause of the deceived Isaac blessing Jacob. As for the rejection that followed after this, when he sought the blessing, one must think it was on the part of the father, or at one and the same time from both; for it is clear that the father also rejected him by the will of God. …

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Thomas Aquinas

693. – Then he shows the punishment which followed when he says, for you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. For it says in Genesis (27:30) that after Isaac had blessed Jacob, Esau came and asked for a blessing, which he did not obtain, although his father did it unknowingly, because in that stupor which he experienced, he was in ecstasy and learned from the Holy Spirit that he was not to retract what he had done; hence, he said: 'I have blessed him and he shall be blessed' (Gen. 27:33). …

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