Romans 9:22 (WEB)
What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
Fathers and councils · 9
Theodoret of Cyrus
“But these same villains, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, screwed up their noses and poured out, if I may so say, as from a well-head, foul noises through their nostrils, and rent the raiment from Christ’s holy…” — editor's note: Romans ix. 22
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Augustine of Hippo
““For so God, willing to show wrath, and to manifest His power, hath brought in, in much patience, the vessels of wrath, which have been perfected unto perdition.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 22.
Read the whole comment““For if God, willing to show wrath and to prove His power, hath in much patience borne with the vessels of wrath, which have been perfected unto perdition”—thou hast heard of power: inquire for mercy—“and that He might make known,” He saith, “His riches unto the vessels of mercy.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 22.
Read the whole comment“That they might not be vessels of wrath, but vessels of mercy.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 22, 23.
Read the whole comment““From the beginning of the world,” that is, from the birth of the human race, “I was mindful of Thy judgments” upon the vessels of wrath, which are fitted unto perdition: “and I received comfort,” since through these also hast Thou shown the riches of Thy glory on the vessels of Thy mercy.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 22, 23.
Read the whole comment“The strong man was conquered by this righteousness, and bound with this chain, that his vessels might be spoiled, which with himself and his angels had been vessels of wrath while with him, and might be turned into vessels of mercy.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 22, 23
Read the whole comment“Now citizens are begotten to the earthly city by nature vitiated by sin, but to the heavenly city by grace freeing nature from sin; whence the former are called “vessels of wrath,” the latter “vessels of mercy.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 22, 23.
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Jerome
“(10) What is the meaning of the passage, Rom. ix. 14–29?” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…the wheat, and when the servants proposed to go and root them up the master forbade them, reserving for himself the separation of the chaff and the grain.There are vessels of wrath and of mercy which the Apostle speaks of in the house of God.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 22, 23; 2 Tim. ii. 20, 21.
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Cross-references · 21
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.15.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.15.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.15.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.15.
