...name might be declared throughout all the earth." ,.-; § 8. The next query is that in verse 19. " Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault ? for who hath resisted his will ?" He had said concerning God in the words immediately foregoing, " He hath mercy on whom he will have...

...sinners, and consigning them to destruction. V ix. 19. TI ITI fiffi(j>iTai; Tip yap f3sXrjjuaTi OUTS TIC " Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will ?" Now this being the known reply of men obstinate in wickedness, and resolved at all events to persist...

...declares, God will have mercy on whom He will have mercy ; and if whom He will He hardeneth ; then, why doth He yet find fault, for who hath resisted His will?" That is the blasphemous cavil. It is an arraignment of the great Judge of all before a mortal tribunal....

...boldly repels ^"confidence of the proud objector by a strong exclamation and a mortifying query—' Nay, but, O man! who art THOU that repliest against God?' Shall a worm of the earth, an insect, an atom, arraign HIS conduct, who is Lord of the universe, and pronounce...

...throughout all the earth. Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, why doth he yet find fault?...repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus ? Hath not the potter power over the clay of the...

...he is Lord, and if we are his property, who can hinder him from doing what he will with his own ?x " Nay but, O man, " who art thou that repliest against...hast " thou made me thus ? Hath not the potter power * De Pcenil. cap. iv. t Oral. ii. adverms Judceos. " Lev. xviii. 2, 4, 5, 6, &c. " Josh. L 9. " over...

...reply against him ? The apostle, however, supposes fhat some of the Jews might be so unreasonable : " Thou wilt say then unto me, why doth he yet find fault ? for who hath resisted his will ?" This objection, St. Paul first answers by showing its presumption. " Who art thou, O man, that repliest...

...Therefore hath he " mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom " he will he hardcneth :" and he subjoins, " Thou " wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find " fault ? for who hath resisted his will ? " — Will any one maintain that Pharaoh, dying in his most daring contest with Omnipotence, was...

...throughout all the earth. Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? JNay but, O man, who art thou, that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say unto him that...

...the earth. 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will ? 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that...