“Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?”
But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? 'Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, Why did you make me like this?' — Paul invokes the creation analogy (τὸ πλάσμα, to plasma, "what is formed"; ὁ πλάσας, ho plasas, "the one who formed") from Isaiah 29:16 and 45:9. The creature cannot interrogate the Creator's purposes. The potter's prerogative (κέραμος, keramos) is absolute.
Church Fathers on Romans 9:19
“Therefore He has mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardens. You will say then unto me, Why does he then find fault? For who has resisted His will?” See what pains he takes to embarrass the subject in every way. And the answer he does not produce immediately, it being a useful thing not to do so, but he first stops the disputant's mouth, saying as follows,
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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