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What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
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Who 'Fits' for Destruction?
Scholars overwhelmingly highlight a crucial distinction. While God actively prepares "vessels of mercy" for glory (v. 23), this verse does not say God prepares "vessels of wrath" for destruction. Instead, they are described as being "fitted," a state commentators like Barnes, Gill, and Henry attribute to the individuals' own sin. As Matthew Henry summarizes, "Sinners fit themselves for hell, but it is God who prepares saints for heaven."
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18th Century
Presbyterian
What if God, etc. If God does what the apostle supposes, what then? Is it not right? This is the second point in the answer to the objecti…
Willing (θελων). Concessive use of the participle, "although willing," not causal, "because willing" as is shown by "with much lon…
19th Century
Anglican
What if . . .—The sentence in the original is incomplete. In its complete form, it would begin something like, “I…
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Baptist
Nay 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…
As he continues the review of God’s sovereign activity, Paul presents another problem. If God acts unilaterally, according to his own will and purp…
16th Century
Protestant
And what, etc. This is a second answer, by which he briefly shows that even though the counsel of God is in fact incomprehensible, His bla…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
What if God, willing to show his wrath The apostle proceeds to clear God from any charge of cruelty and unmercifulne…
Whatever God does, must be just. The way in which the holy, happy people of God differ from others, God's grace alone makes them differ. In this pr…
13th Century
Catholic
Having answered the proposed question, the Apostle raises an objection to the solution, particularly to the last part, which states that …
