In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Ver. 11. We have obtained inheritance] Or we are taken into the Church, as magistrates were by lot into their office. Or we are made God's inheritance, asDeuteronomy 32:9. It imports our free and unexpected vocation. In sortem adsciti sumus, εκληρωθημεν; we were sorted out, singled out for a picked peculiar people.
After the counsel of his own will] God doth all by counsel, and ever hath a reason of his will, which though we see not for the present, we shall at the last day. Meanwhile submit.