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the patriarchs belong to them, and theirs is the human stock from which Christ came; Christ, who rules as God over all things, blessed for ever, Amen.✻ (Romans 9, 5)
That is to say, God’s sonship is not for all those who are Abraham’s children by natural descent; it is only the children given to him as the result of God’s promise that are to be counted as his posterity. (Romans 9, 8)
And not only she, but Rebecca too received a promise, when she bore two sons to the same husband, our father Isaac. (Romans 9, 10)
They had not yet been born; they had done nothing, good or evil; and already, so that God’s purpose might stand out clearly as his own choice, (Romans 9, 11)
with no action of theirs to account for it, nothing but his will, from whom the call came, she was told, The elder is to be the servant of the younger.✻ (Romans 9, 12)
the effect comes, then, from God’s mercy, not from man’s will, or man’s alacrity. (Romans 9, 16)
Nay, but who art thou, friend, to bandy words with God? Is the pot to ask the potter, Why hast thou fashioned me thus?✻ (Romans 9, 20)
Is not the potter free to do what he will with the clay, using the same lump to make two objects, one for noble and one for ignoble use? (Romans 9, 21)
It may be that God has borne, long and patiently, with those who are the objects of his vengeance, fit only for destruction, meaning to give proof of that vengeance, and display his power at last;✻ (Romans 9, 22)
meaning also to display, in those who are the objects of his mercy, how rich is the glory he bestows, that glory for which he has destined them.✻ (Romans 9, 23)
the Lord is making up his reckoning and cutting it short in his justice; it is a short reckoning that he will make upon earth.✻ (Romans 9, 28)
So Isaias had said earlier on, If the Lord of Hosts had not left us a stock to breed from, we should have been like Sodom, we should have gone the way of Gomorrah.✻ (Romans 9, 29)
