Nay but, O man, who are you that replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Paul says this in order not to do away with free will but rather to show to what extent we ought to obey God. We should be as little inclined to call God to account as a piece of clay is. We ought to abstain not only from complaining or questioning but from even speaking or thinking about it at all, and instead we should become like that lifeless matter which follows the potter’s hands and lets itself be shaped in whatever way the potter wills.
