009:011 and even then, though they were not then born and had not done anything either good or evil, yet in order that God's electing purpose might not be frustrated, based, as it was, not on their actions but on the will of Him who called them, she was told,
009:012 "The elder of them will be bondservant to the younger."
009:013 This agrees with the other Scripture which says, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated."
009:014 What then are we to infer? That there is injustice in God?
009:015 No, indeed; the solution is found in His words to Moses, "Wherever I
show mercy it shall be nothing but mercy, and wherever I show
compassion it shall be simply compassion."
009:016 And from this we learn that everything is dependent not
on man's will or endeavour, but upon God who has mercy.
For the Scripture said to Pharaoh,
009:017 "It is for this very purpose that I have lifted you so high—
that I may make manifest in you My power, and that My name
may be proclaimed far and wide in all the earth."
009:018 This is a proof that wherever He chooses He shows mercy,
and wherever he chooses He hardens the heart.
009:019 "Why then does God still find fault?" you will ask;
"for who is resisting His will?"
009:020 Nay, but who are you, a mere man, that you should cavil
against GOD? Shall the thing moulded say to him who moulded it,
"Why have you made me thus?"