[BR]你这个人哪,你是谁,竟敢向神强嘴呢。受造之物岂能对造他的说,你为什么这样造我呢。
[BR]Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
[BR]陶匠难道没有权柄,从一团泥里拿一块作成贵重的器皿,又拿一块作成卑贱的器皿吗。
[BR]Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
[BR]倘若神要显明他的忿怒,彰显他的权能,就多多忍耐宽容那可怒预备遭毁灭的器皿。
[BR]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:
[BR]又要将他丰盛的荣耀,彰显在那蒙怜悯早豫备得荣耀的器皿上。
[BR]And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
[BR]就像神在何西阿书上说,那本来不是我子民的,我要称为我的子民。本来不是蒙爱的,我要称为蒙爱的。
[BR]As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
[BR]从前在什么地方对他们说,你们不是我的子民,将来就在那里称他们为永生神的儿子。
[BR]e to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
[BR]以赛亚指着以色列人喊着说,以色列人虽多如海沙,得救的不过是剩下的馀数。
[BR]Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
[BR]以赛亚指着以色列人喊着说,以色列人虽多如海沙,得救的不过是剩下的馀数。
[BR]Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
又如以赛亚先前说过,若不是万军之主给我们存留馀种,我们早已像所多玛,蛾摩拉的样子了。And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.