been approved on the basis of the works that God foreknew were going to be in him, although he had not yet done any works, and the fact that they were not yet born when it was said, The older shall serve the younger, will not support your position at all, since you must then show that this was not said because of works, inasmuch as he had not yet done any works. 2,12. If you also pay close attention to these words, It is not a matter of willing or of running, therefore, but of a merciful God, the
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