Romans 9:21 (WEB)
Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
Fathers and councils · 16
Jerome
“For the vessel cannot say to him that makes it, “Why dost thou make me thus or thus?” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 21.
Read the whole comment“(10) What is the meaning of the passage, Rom. ix. 14–29?” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 20, 21.
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John Damascene
“For the potter is able at his will to make vessels of various patterns out of his clay, as a proof of his own wisdom.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 21.
Read the whole comment“It is to be observed that it is the custom in the Holy Scripture to speak of God’s permission as His energy, as when the apostle says in the Epistle to the Romans, Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 21.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Out of the same lump vessels unto honour, of which others also are made to dishonour.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 21.
Read the whole comment“For it is in the depth of the riches of the knowledge and wisdom of God that it comes to pass that of the same lump one vessel is made unto honour, and another unto dishonour.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 21.
Read the whole comment“By grace,—for so far as regards himself he is sprung from the same mass, all of which is condemned in its origin; but God, like a potter (for this comparison is introduced by the apostle judiciously, and not without thought), of the same lump made one vessel to honor, another to dishonor.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 21.
Read the whole comment“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 20, 21
Read the whole comment“…and the same heap of perdition which constitutes the race of man, makes one vessel to honor, another to dishonor; to honor in mercy, to dishonor in judgment; that no one may glory in man, and consequently not in himself.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 21
Read the whole comment“For out of that mass, which has all perished in Adam, are formed the vessels of mercy, whereof that world of reconciliation is composed, that is hated by the world which belongeth to the vessels of wrath that are formed out of the same mass and fitted to destruction.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 21, 23.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis III.1Book III
“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 18–21.
Read the whole comment - Origen, De Principiis III.2Book III
“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 20, 21.
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Basil the Great
“…the error of those who supposed that the body of the Lord was a spiritual body, and, to shew that the God-bearing flesh was formed out of the common lump of human nature, gave precedence to the more emphatic preposition.” — editor's note: φυραμα. cf. Rom. ix. 21.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For though our vessel be but common, yet one is in honour, another in dishonour.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 21.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“For since from no other source than from the concrete lump of our nature had come that flesh, which was the receptacle of the Godhead and in the resurrection was raised up together with that Godhead, therefore just in the same way…” — editor's note: Cf. Rom. ix. 21: φύραμα is used for the human body often in the Greek Fathers, i.e. Athanasius, Chrysostom, John Damascene: by all of whom Christ is called…
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together with
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 107 and 1 other place.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.19.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.19.
Cited together in The City of God XV.1.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.19.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.19.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 87.
Cited together in The Great Catechism Chapter 34.
Cited together in The City of God XV.1.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 99.
Cited together in The Great Catechism Chapter 34.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.19.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.19.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.19.
Quotes
The potter and the clay, vessels for honour and for dishonour.
