The vessel fell by itself from his hands

So the prophet goes down into the potter’s house and narrates what he saw, saying: 'And behold, he was doing work upon his hands, and the vessel which he was making in the clay in his hands fell apart; and again he made it another vessel, as it was pleasing before him to make.' But I do not know what the prophet saw when he came to be beside the potter. For he saw the potter working; the vessel that had come to be was clay; the vessel fell apart. What exactly did he not say? He did not say: he let the vessel go from his hand—nor did he set the cause upon the potter. But since the word is about ensouled vessels, which fall apart from themselves, therefore it has been said: 'the vessel fell apart from his hands.'

Attend then also to yourself, lest while you are in the potter’s hands and still being molded you fall apart from his hands from yourself. For 'no one snatches out of his hands,' according to what is said in the Gospel according to John. Yet it is not written that as no one snatches, so no one falls apart from his hands; for the self-determining power is free. And I say: no one will snatch out of the shepherd’s hand; no one can take us out of the hand of God; but we ourselves, by neglecting, can fall apart from his hands.