“For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.”
For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all. — The climactic statement: God has shut up all (pas) in apistia (unbelief, disobedience) so that eleos (mercy) might be extended to all. This is not determinism but theological reality: all stand equally before God's mercy. The hardening, the disobedience, the stumbling—all serve to manifest God's mercy.
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