compassion it shall be simply compassion."
009:016 And from this we learn that everything is dependent not
on man's will or endeavour, but upon God who has mercy.
For the Scripture said to Pharaoh,
009:017 "It is for this very purpose that I have lifted you so high--
that I may make manifest in you My power, and that My name
may be proclaimed far and wide in all the earth."
009:018 This is a proof that wherever He chooses He shows mercy,
and wherever he chooses He hardens the heart.
009:019 "Why then does God still find fault?" you will ask;
"for who is resisting His will?"
009:020 Nay, but who are you, a mere man, that you should cavil
against GOD? Shall the thing moulded say to him who moulded it,
"Why have you made me thus?"
009:021 Or has not the potter rightful power over the clay to make out
of the same lump one vessel for more honourable and another
for less honourable uses?
009:022 And what if God, while choosing to make manifest the terrors
of His anger and to show what is possible with Him, has yet
borne with long-forbearing patience with the subjects of His
anger who stand ready for destruction,
009:023 in order to make known His infinite goodness towards the subjects
of His mercy whom He has prepared beforehand for glory,
009:024 even towards us whom He has called not only from among the Jews
but also from among the Gentiles?
009:025 So also in Hosea He says, "I will call that nation My People
which was not My People, and I will call her beloved who
was not beloved.
009:026 And in the place where it was said to them, `No people of Mine
are you,' there shall they be called sons of the everliving God."