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Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, Valentin de Boulogne

Romans 9:21

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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

John Damascene

Augustine of Hippo

Origen

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

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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  • 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.

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  • The potter and the clay, vessels for honour and for dishonour.

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