[[12]] Rom. ix. 21.
[[13]] 1 Cor. xii. 22 ff.
[[14]] Cf. St. Matt. xiii. 13-15; St. John xii. 39, 40. We are not (Rom. ix. 17) told why Pharaoh was brought out on the stage of history as an example of God's hardening judgement. But no doubt there was a moral reason.
[[15]] Rom. ix-xi.
[[16]] Rom. xi. 29.
[[17]] Rom. xi. 33.
[[18]] 1 Tim. ii. 4.
[[19]] 1 Cor. ix. 27.
[[20]] Rom. viii. 38, 39
[[21]] I am using the word here not in its Bible sense, for in the Bible God is said to 'know' men in the sense of fixing His choice or approval upon them; and to 'foreknow' is therefore to approve or choose beforehand, as suitable instruments for a divine purpose. I am using the word in its ordinary sense.