Sawyer(i)
15 For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to him to whom I may be merciful, and I will compassionate him whom I may compassionate.
16 Therefore, it is not of him that wills nor of him that runs, but of God that exercises mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this same cause I raised you up, to show my power in you, and that my name may be declared in all the earth.
18 He therefore has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardens.
19 You will say to me then, Why then does he yet find fault? for who has resisted his will?
20 Yes indeed, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the work say to him that made it, Why did you make me thus?
21 or has not the potter a right, in respect to the clay, to make of the same mass one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?
22 But if God wishing to show his wrath and to make known his power endured with much long suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,
23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared for glory,
24 whom he also called, us not of the Jews only but also of the gentiles,