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They are Israelites, adopted as God’s sons; the visible presence, and the covenant, and the giving of the law, and the Temple worship, and the promises, are their inheritance; (Romans 9, 4)
And yet it is not as if God’s promise had failed of its effect. Not all those who are sprung from Israel are truly Israelites; (Romans 9, 6)
not all the posterity of Abraham are Abraham’s children; It is through Isaac, he was told, that thy posterity shall be traced. (Romans 9, 7)
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)
So it is that we read, I have been a friend to Jacob, and an enemy to Esau.✻ (Romans 9, 13)
I will shew pity, he tells Moses, on those whom I pity; I will shew mercy where I am merciful;✻ (Romans 9, 15)
Pharao, too, is told in scripture, This is the very reason why I have made thee what thou art, so as to give proof, in thee, of my power, and to let my name be known all over the earth.✻ (Romans 9, 17)
Thus he shews mercy where it is his will, and where it is his will he hardens men’s hearts.✻ (Romans 9, 18)
Hereupon thou wilt ask, If that is so, how can he find fault with us, since there is no resisting his will? (Romans 9, 19)
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)
