Living_Oracles(i)
15 By no means. For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy; and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."
16 So, then, it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs; but of God, who shows mercy.
17 Besides, the scripture says to Pharaoh, "Even for this same purpose I have roused you up; that I might show, in you, my power; and that my name might be published through all the earth."
18 Well, then, he has mercy on whom he will; and whom he will, he hardens.