Charles Ellicott Commentary Romans 9:20

"Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?" — Romans 9:20 (ASV)

Nay but, O man.—The answer is not so much a solution to the intellectual difficulty, as an appeal to the religious sense to prevent it from being raised. That His dealings should be questioned at all is a breach of the reverence due to God.