“Now, going back over it briefly, let us also seek out something concerning the inner meaning. How, then, does God make his wrath known? Through vessels, he says, of wrath fitted for destruction. I am myself astonished within myself when I contemplate the design of the Holy Spirit in the divine volumes. For he says tha…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
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22What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
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20Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
— Romans 9:22 —
23And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?