18. Therefore hath he--"So then he hath." The result then is that He
hath
mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth--by
judicially abandoning them to the hardening influence of sin itself
(Ps 81:11, 12;
Ro 1:24, 26, 28;
Heb 3:8, 13),
and of the surrounding incentives to it
(Mt 24:12;
1Co 15:38;
2Th 2:17).
JFB.
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