(Gen. xxvii. 2), "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." The first-named " voice alludes to the voice of lamentation caused by Hadrian, who had at Alexandria in Egypt massacred twice the number of Jews that had come forth under Moses. The " voice of Jacob w refers to a similar lamentation occasioned by Vespasian, who put to death in the city of Byther four hundred myriads, or, as some say, four thousand myriads. " The hands are the hands of Esau," that is, the empire which destroyed our house, burned our Temple, and banished us from our country.
Or the " voice of Jacob " means that there is no effectual prayer that is not offered by the progeny of Jacob; and "the hands are the hands of Esau, that there is no victorious battle which is not fought by the descendants of Esau. Ibid.