Romans 9:15

For The connexion is; "The thought of injustice in these actsof the Eternal Judge is all the more to be rejected because they follow a principle expressed in His own words;for He saysto Moses, &c." That the principle, so expressed, is absolutely right, is taken for granted. To the Apostle, God's word is final and absolute. With Him nothing indeed can be capricious, but none the less His "judgments" must, to a vast degree, be "past finding out," just because He is the Eternal.

I will have mercy, &c. Exodus 33:19. Verbatim from LXX. The English exactly represents the Hebrew, if it is noted that "will" throughout this verse might equally well be "shall." In both Hebrew and Greek there is no explicitreference to "willing," in the sense of "choosing." However, the general sense plainly is, "In any case, through human history, wherein I shall be seen to have mercy, the one account I give of the radical cause is this I have mercy." It is to be thankfully remembered, by the way, that close to this awful utterance occurs that other equally sovereign proclamation, (Exodus 34:6, &c.) "The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, &c."