assert that ‘it is a property of the regenerate not to do the good which they would, and to do the evil which they would not’.”14 The treatment of Romans 9 took the form of a lengthy letter to one Gellius Snecanus, a Reformed minister in Friesland, who had written in favor of conditional predestination and had published, in 1596, an Introduction to the Ninth Chapter of Romans. Arminius recognized views similar to his own and wrote to tell Snecanus how he personally dealt with Romans 9 and its implications