“For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”
It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God's mercy. — The ἀπό (apo, "from") of human will or effort (ἐθέλω, thelō; τρέχω, trechō) does not ground salvation; rather, ἔλεος (eleos, "mercy")—God's alone. Salvation is not achieved or desired into being; it is gifted mercy.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a note on this verse