Twentieth_Century(i)
10 Nor is that all. There is also the case of Rebecca, when she was about to bear children to our ancestor Isaac.
11 For in order that the purpose of God, working through selection, might not fail-a selection depending, not on obedience, but on his Call-Rebecca was told, before her children were born and before they had done anything either right or wrong,
12 that 'the elder would be a servant to the younger.'
13 The words of Scripture are-'I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau.'
14 What are we to say, then? Is God guilty of injustice? Heaven forbid!
15 For his words to Moses are-'I will take pity on whom I take pity, and be merciful to whom I am merciful.'
16 So, then, all depends, not on human wishes or human efforts, but on God's mercy.