For he saith to Moses,
I will have mercy
on whom I will have mercy,
and I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion
It's Gods business,
about what he does
with what he has.
NOT ANYBODY ELSES.
See where it says
he cares what you think about that?
Yeah me neither.
Selected Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The sense of the passage clearly is,
that he would choose the objects of his favor,
and bestow his mercies as he chose.
None of the human race deserved his favor;
and he had a right to pardon whom he pleased,
and to save people on his own terms,
and according to his sovereign will and pleasure.
On whom I will have mercy -
On whom I choose to bestow mercy.
The mode he does not explain.
(He's God, he simply
doesn't have to explain himself.)
But there could not be a more positive declaration of these truths:
(1) That he does it as a sovereign,
without giving an account of the reason of his choice to any.
(2) that he does it without regard to any claim on the part of man; or that man is regarded as destitute of merit, and as having no right to his mercy.
(3) that he will do it to any extent which he pleases,
and in whatever time and manner
may best accord with his own good pleasure.
(4) that he has regard to a definite number and that on that number he intends to bestow eternal life; and,
(5) That no one has a right to complain.
(Nobody deserves any of it:
Compassion or Mercy.
Therefore,
You don't have any right to complain
about how much of something you got
compared to how much of something
somebody else got,
when the fact is:
NEITHER
DESERVED ANY OF IT
to start with.
WHAT IS COMPLICATED HERE?)
"...all are justly condemned,
he has a right to pardon whom he pleases."
"...and none has a right to complain."
Matthew Poole's Commentary
"God is not chargeable with any injustice in electing some, and not others; for this is an act of mere mercy and compassion, and that can be no violation of justice."
"...nothing moves him thereunto, but his own gracious inclination; and also the arbitrariness thereof; it depends only upon his good will and pleasure."
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
"And will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. This is produced, in favour of special, particular, and personal election, and to clear it from any charge of unrighteousness; and by it, it appears, that God bestows his grace and mercy in time, on such persons he has willed and determined from all eternity to bestow it; this, is clear from hence, for since all this is dependent on his will, it must be as this was his will from eternity, seeing no new will can possibly arise in God, God wills nothing in time, but what he willed before time; that this grace and mercy are shown only to some persons, and that the only reason of this is his sovereign will and pleasure, and not the works and merits of men; wherefore since this grace and mercy rise out of his own free good will and pleasure, and are by no means the creature's due, it most clearly follows, that God in determining to bestow his grace and mercy, and in the actual doing of it, whilst he determines to deny it, and does deny it to others, cannot possibly be chargeable with any unrighteousness."
Geneva Study Bible
Moreover, mercy is shown by her degrees: that is, by calling, by faith, by justification and sanctification, so that at length we come to glorification, as the apostle will show afterwards. Now all these things orderly following the purpose of God, do clearly prove that he can by no means seem unjust in loving and saving his.
(o) I will be merciful and favourable
to whom I wish to be favourable.
(p) I will have compassion on
whoever I wish to have compassion.
Meyer's NT Commentary
"God’s mercy, in respect of the persons concerned, whose lot it should be to experience it, lets itself be determined solely by His own free will of grace: “I will have mercy upon whosoever is the object of my mercy;...”
" Consequently, not merely the mercy in itself, but also the determination of those who should be its objects, is designated as a free act of God, resting on nothing except on His elective purpose, and affecting the persons according to it..."
Expositor's Greek Testament
"...the point is that in showing mercy
God is determined
by nothing outside of His mercy itself."
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
However, the general sense plainly is, “In any case, through human history, wherein I shall be seen to have mercy, the one account I give of the radical cause is this—I have mercy.” It is to be thankfully remembered.
"the words in this verse may be also taken, without injury to the sense, as spoken in the person of the apostle,"
"...the Lord spoke thus:
By My proclamation,
and by My most abundant working,
subsequently,
I will designate [mark out] him,
as the object of grace and mercy,
whosoever he be,
whom I make
the object of grace and mercy.
By these words He intimated,
that He would make proclamation
[would reveal His own character]
as regards grace and mercy."
Bengel's Gnomen
"...all things are in My hand,
under My authority,
and dependent on My will,
if I act otherwise,
no one can charge Me with injustice."
"The words were spoken to Moses in connection with his prayer for a general forgiveness of the people, which was refused, and his request to behold God's glory, which was granted.
With reference to the latter,
God asserts that His gift is of His own free grace,
without any recognition of Moses' right to claim it
on the ground of merit or service.
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