but who are you, o man, to answer back to God? will what is molded say to its molder, "why have you made me like this?" has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? what if God, desiring to show His wrath and to make known His power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which He has prepared beforehand for glory.