The argument is summed up in a picture of the wide and patient purpose of GOD: the end is to bring both Jew and Gentile under His mercy: in the process both have sinned (cc. Romans 1:18-23) and experienced His wrath, owing to the same cause in them. But the waywardness of man has no counterpart in GOD: His gifts and calling are not withdrawn or changed, and will triumph in the end.

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