Paul and the Wrath: Divine Judgment and Mercy for Israel in Romans 9-11 - Hardcoverby Thomas P. Dixon (Author) Romans 9 11 is one of the most controversial passages in Paul's corpus. Efforts to reconcile chapter 9 with chapter 11 are disparate, and the dearth of scholarly interest in the subject of wrath often perpetuates the Marcionite premise that wrath precludes mercy, a false antithesis that was foreign to Paul and especially skews interpretation of Romans. This presumed opposition leads scholars to find dithering dialectic,