clared throughout all the earth. 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. 18 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

(d) Further the Scriptures declare that not all who receive the external call have sufficient grace:

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Rom. ix.

16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault ? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, Ο man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour ? 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction : 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24 us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

Rom. xi.

even

* (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slum

ber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

Rom. xi. 7-12.

7 Τί οὖν; ὃ ἐπιζητεῖ Ἰσραὴλ, τύτου ἐκ ἐπέτυχεν· ἡ δὲ ἐκλογὴ ἐπέτυχεν, οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ ἐπωρώθησαν, (καθώς γέγραπται· Εδωκεν αὐτοῖς ὁ Θεὸς πνεῦμα κατανύξεως, ὀφθαλμοὺς τοῦ μὴ βλέπειν, καὶ ὦτα τοῦ μὴ ἀκούειν) έως τῆς σήμερον ἡμέρας. Ο Καὶ Δαβὶδ λέγει· Γενηθήτω ἡ τράπεζα αὐτῶν εἰς παγίδα, καὶ εἰς θήραν, καὶ εἰς σκάνδαλον, καὶ εἰς ἀντα 10 Σκοτισθήτωσαν οἱ πόδομα αὐτοῖς. ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτῶν τοῦ μὴ βλέπειν· καὶ τὸν νῶτον αὐτῶν διαπαντὸς σύγκαμψον. " Λέγω οὖν, Μὴ ἔπταισαν, ἵνα πέσωσι; Μη γένοιτο· ἀλλὰ τῷ αὐτῶν παραπτώ ματι ή σοτηρία τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, εἰς τὸ παραζηλῶσαι αὐτούς. 12 Εἰ δὲ τὸ παράπο τωμα αὐτῶν πλοῦτος κόσμου, καὶ τὸ ἥττημα αὐτῶν πλοῦτος ἐθνῶν, πόσῳ μᾶλλον τὸ πλήρωμα αὐτῶν;

The first quotation, in the eighth verse, is supposed to be from Deut. xxix. 4:

4 Καὶ οὐκ ἔδωκε Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ὑμῖν καρδίαν εἰδέναι, καὶ ὀφθαλμοὺς βλέπειν, καὶ ὦτα ἀκούειν ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης.

The second quotation, in the tenth verse, is supposed to be from Psalm 1xix. 22, 23 in the Hebrew Bible, and lxviii. 22, 23 in the Septuagint version.

αὐτῶν εἰς παγίδα, καὶ εἰς ἀνταπόδοσιν, 22 Γενηθήτω ή τράπεζα αὐτῶν ἐνώπιον *, εἰς σκάνδαλον. 23 Σκοτισθήτωσαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτῶν τῷ μὴ βλέπειν, και τ νῶτον αὐτῶν διαπαντὸς σύγκαμψον.

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Rom. xi.

7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded * (according as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear ;) unto this day. 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: 10 let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway. I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid : but rather through their fall salvation is

come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. 12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

DEUT. xxix.

2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; the great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: 4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink that ye might know that I am the LORD your God. 7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh. Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye

do.

PSALM lxix.

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18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies. 19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. Reproach heaviness: and I looked for some to take hath broken my heart; and I am full of pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it be 23 Let their eyes be come a trap. darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. * For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

should preach among the Gentiles the

Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

EPH. ii. 10, 15. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 15 having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 16 and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 17 and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. EPH. iii. 9.

8 Unto me, who am less than the least

unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the world hath been hid in God, who of the mystery, which from the beginning created all things by Jesus Christ: EPH. 1v. 24.

23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Twice-COL. i. 16.

that are in heaven, and that are in earth, 16 For by him were all things created, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 and he is before all things, and by him all things consist. COL. iii. 10.

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11 where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

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I TIM. iv. 3.

2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. Twice-REV. iv.

"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

REV. x.

6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:

(B) Krious, a founding, settling, foundation, structure, formation. (3) A making, a creating, the creation of the universe. (y) The world or the universe itself. (') A created thing, a creature, an ordiFrom the preceding Verb. Oc

nance.

curs 19 times:

MARK X. 6.

And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. 5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. 6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh: so that they are no more twain, but one flesh.

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creatute more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

ROM. viii. 19, 20, 21, 22.

(D) Kriorne, a founder, an establisher. (B') An architect, a creator. From the same verb. Occurs but once:

I PETER iv.

19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

(E) ATOкvέw, to bear young, to bring forth. From άò, from, and xvw, to make pregnant, to cause to conceive. Occurs but twice:

JAMES i. 15, 18. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

(F) Zworow, to quicken, to make alive, to preserve alive. From wóg, alive, and Toitw, to make. Occurs 12 times: Twice-JOHN V.

21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.