19. You will say to me, "Then why does Hashem still find fault? For who has resisted His will?"
20. On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to answer back to G-d? VEYETZER AMAR LEYOTZRO ("Can the pot say to the potter" YESHAYAH 29:16), "Why have you made me thus?"
21. Or does the potter not have the right over the clay [YIRMEYAH 18:6] to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
22. But what if naniach (supposing) Hashem, willing to demonstrate His Charon Af Hashem (burning anger of G-d) and to make known His ko'ach (power)[1:18,16], put up with and endured with zitzfleisch (patience) vessels which are objects of G-d's Charon Af (burning anger), objects made ready for Churban [9:3],
23. And in order that He might make known the wealth of His kavod (glory) on vessels which are objects of Hashem's chaninah (mercy, free grace) which He prepared beforehand for kavod? [8:29-30]
24. By which I mean us, whom also He called, not only from the Yehudim but also from the non-Jews,
25. As it says in Hoshea, V'AMARTI L'LO AMMI AMI ATAH ("And I will call the 'not my people' my people" HOSHEA 2:25 [23]) and the 'not loved' loved;
26. "And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they shall be called B'NEI EL CHAI ("sons of the living G-d-HOSHEA 2:1)"
27. Yeshayah proclaims concerning Yisroel, "Even if the number of the Bnei Yisroel are as the sand of the sea, only the She'erit (Remnant) will return (be saved),
28. For Hashem will complete and cut short and will perform His Word on the earth [YESHAYAH 10:22-23].
29. And as Yeshayah said beforehand, "Except Adonoi Tzvaot had left us SARID KIM'AT ("some survivors" (Ro 9:7), we would have become like S'dom and we would have been the same as Amora" [YESHAYAH 1:9].
30. What then shall we say? That Goyim who do not pursue Tzedek (righteousness) have attained Tzedek which is Tzedek through emunah,
31. Whereas Yisroel pursuing a Tzedek (righteousness) based on the Torah (see Ga 3:12-13) did not arrive at that Torah?
32. Why so? Because it was not on the mekor (basis) of emunah but on the mekor (basis) of [zechus-earning] ma'asim (works 3:20,28; 4:2,6; 9:11-12). They have stumbled over the EVEN NEGEF ("Stone of Stumbling" Isa 8:14; 28:16),
33. As it is written "Hinei, I place in Tziyon a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and he who believes in Me shall not be put to shame" (Isa 8:14; 28:16).