“What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.”
For he says to Moses, 'I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.' — The citation of Exodus 33:19 grounds mercy (ἔλεος, eleos) in God's sovereign will: ἐλεέω (eleeō, "I will show mercy") is purely divine prerogative. God's compassion (σπλαγχνίζομαι, splagchnizgmai, "be moved with compassion") is not obligated but freely bestowed. Mercy is not owed; it is granted.
Church Fathers on Romans 9:14
“For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls, it was said to her, the elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” What was the cause then why one was loved and the other hated? Why was it that one served, the other was served? It was because one was wicked, and the other good. And yet the children being…
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