Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Vessels of mercy (skeuh eleouv). Objective genitive like skeuh orghv.
Afore prepared (prohtoimasen). First aorist active indicative of proetoimazw, old verb to make ready (from etoimov, ready) and pro, before, in N.T. only here and Ephesians 2:10. But same idea in Romans 8:28-30.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Romans 9:23:
Ephesians 2:10
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