7. nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children, but--`in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'
8. that is, the children of the flesh--these [are] not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;
9. for the word of promise [is] this; `According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.'
10. And not only [so], but also Rebecca, having conceived by one--Isaac our father--
11. (for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her--
12. `The greater shall serve the less;'
13. according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'
14. What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness [is] with God? let it not be!
15. for to Moses He saith, `I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;'
16. so, then--not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:
17. for the Writing saith to Pharaoh--`For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'
18. so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.
19. Thou wilt say, then, to me, `Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?'