Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will? 20O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus? 21Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour? 22What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction, 23That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he hath prepared unto glory? 24Even us, whom also he hath called, not only of the Jews but also of the Gentiles. 25As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not obtained mercy; one that hath obtained mercy. 26And it shalt be in the place where it was said unto them: you are not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God. 27And Isaias cried out concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved. 28For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth. 29And Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom and we had been like unto Gomorrha.