Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Thou wilt say then unto me, Why, х ti (H5101)], or (according to another reading) 'Why, then' х moi (G3427) oun (G3767), ti (G5100) oun (G3767)]
Doth he yet find fault? for who hath resisted his will? х anthesteeken (G436)] - 'who resisteth his will' (for the perfect of this verb has the sense of a present): q.d., 'If God chooses and rejects, pardons and punishes whom He pleases, why are those blamed who, if rejected by Him, cannot help sinning and 'perishing?' This objection shows, quite as conclusively as the former one, the real nature of the doctrine objected to-that it is Election and Nonelection to eternal salvation, prior to any difference of personal character: this is the only doctrine that could suggest the objection here stated, and to this doctrine the objection is plausible. What now is the apostle's answer? It is two-fold: First, 'It is irreverence and presumption in the creature to arraign the Creator.'