“What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:”
What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— — The δόξα (doxa, "glory") is manifested in mercy (ἔλεος, eleos) bestowed on τὰ σκεύη τοῦ ἐλέους (ta skeuē tou eleous, "vessels of mercy"), whom God προετοιμάζω (proetoimazō, "prepared beforehand") for δόξα (doxa, "glory"). The vessels of mercy mirror the preparation of vessels of wrath; both serve the manifestation of God's character.
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