Romans 9 is Not about Predestining Pharaoh for Destruction

Calvinist Proof-Texts Answered

“For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.” (Rom. 9:17)

Romans 9 is Not about Predestining Pharaoh for Destruction

“But, for this very reason, I have kept you from destruction, to make clear to you my power, and so that my name may be honoured through all the earth.” (Exodus 9:16; Bible in Basic English)

“And in very deed for this cause have I preserved thee through all the plagues and till the end, for to shew in thee My power; and that My name may be declared throughout all the earth.” (Exodus 9:16; E. W. Bullinger’s Companion Bible, 1909)

Commentary: “....the Hiphil is so much the more naturally translated, to allow to remain. It gives additional recommendation to this meaning, that the connection immediately suggests it; for Pharaoh might already have been carried off by the preceding plagues, and still more might this have happened in the threatened pestilence.” - August Tholuck, Exposition of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans (Philadelphia: Sorin and Ball, 1844), p. 326. The passage has nothing to do with God, before the beginning of time, predestining Pharaoh to be a vessel of destruction for his glory as some Calvinists falsely insinuate. On the contrary, God mercifully preserved and protected the undeserving Pharaoh when the plagues could have destroyed him.

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