Romans 11:1,2
A REMNANT OF ISRAEL SAVED. Meeting a further objection:... [ Continue Reading ]
A REMNANT OF ISRAEL SAVED. Meeting a further objection:... [ Continue Reading ]
I SAY, THEN, HATH GOD CAST AWAY HIS PEOPLE? GOD FORBID! FOR I ALSO AM AN ISRAELITE, OF THE SEED OF ABRAHAM, OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
An example from history:... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD HATH NOT CAST AWAY HIS PEOPLE WHICH HE FOREKNEW. The apostle here in his own words states a false conclusion which some of his readers might draw from his previous presentation. Is it to be inferred that God has rejected His own people, those who are in truth His own? Note the emphasis on the pr... [ Continue Reading ]
LORD, THEY HAVE KILLED THY PROPHETS, AND DIGGED DOWN THINE ALTARS; AND I AM LEFT ALONE, AND THEY SEEK MY LIFE?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHAT SAITH THE ANSWER OF GOD UNTO HIM? I HAVE RESERVED TO MYSELF SEVEN THOUSAND MEN WHO HAVE NOT BOWED THE KNEE TO THE IMAGE OF BAAL.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN SO, THEN, AT THIS PRESENT TIME ALSO, THERE IS A REMNANT ACCORDING TO THE ELECTION OF GRACE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF BY GRACE, THEN IS IT NO MORE OF WORKS; OTHERWISE GRACE IS NO MORE GRACE. BUT IF IT BE OF WORKS, THEN IS IT NO MORE GRACE; OTHERWISE WORK IS NO MORE WORK.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT THEN? ISRAEL HATH NOT OBTAINED THAT WHICH HE SEEKETH FOR. St. Paul quotes a Scripture-passage from Elijah, from the section of the Old Testament which treats mainly of the life and deeds of Elijah, in confirmation of his contention. Even in the darkest days of Israel there was ever a remnant, a... [ Continue Reading ]
The result of refusing God's way of salvation:... [ Continue Reading ]
(ACCORDING AS IT IS WRITTEN, GOD HATH GIVEN THEM THE SPIRIT OF SLUMBER, EYES THAT THEY SHOULD NOT SEE. AND EARS THAT THEY SHOULD NOT HEAR) UNTO THIS DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DAVID SAITH, LET THEIR TABLE BE MADE A SNARE, AND A TRAP, AND A STUMBLING-BLOCK, AND A RECOMPENSE UNTO THEM;... [ Continue Reading ]
LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED THAT THEY MAY NOT SEE, AND BOW DOWN THEIR BACK ALWAY. Only the election, those that were elected according to God's gracious decree, obtained salvation in Christ. But the rest, the great majority, the entire people of Israel as such, in fact, became hardened. They rejected... [ Continue Reading ]
I SAY, THEN, HAVE THEY STUMBLED THAT THEY SHOULD FALL? GOD FORBID! BUT RATHER THROUGH THEIR FALL SALVATION IS COME UNTO THE GENTILES FOR TO PROVOKE THEM TO JEALOUSY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AN ADMONITION AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO GENTILES AND JEWS. The result of Israel's defection for the Gentiles:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW, IF THE FALL OF THEM BE THE RICHES OF THE WORLD, AND THE DIMINISHING OF THEM THE RICHES OF THE GENTILES, HOW MUCH MORE THEIR FULLNESS? The apostle here again guards against a false conclusion: Surely Israel, the great mass of the Jewish nation, did not stumble for the purpose of falling? Was the... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I SPEAK TO YOU GENTILES; INASMUCH AS I AM THE APOSTLE OF THE GENTILES, I MAGNIFY MINE OFFICE,... [ Continue Reading ]
An admonition to the Gentiles:... [ Continue Reading ]
IF BY ANY MEANS I MAY PROVOKE TO EMULATION THEM WHICH ARE MY FLESH, AND MIGHT SAVE SOME OF THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF THE CASTING AWAY OF THEM BE THE RECONCILING OF THE WORLD, WHAT SHALL THE RECEIVING OF THEM BE BUT LIFE FROM THE DEAD? The apostle in the entire section now following addresses himself to his Gentile readers. In so far as he is indeed the apostle of the Gentiles, he intends to praise his minis... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF THE FIRST-FRUIT BE HOLY, THE LUMP IS ALSO HOLY; AND IF THE ROOT BE HOLY, SO ARE THE BRANCHES.... [ Continue Reading ]
A warning to the Gentile Christians:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF SOME OF THE BRANCHES BE BROKEN OFF, AND THOU, BEING A WILD OLIVE-TREE, WERT GRAFTED IN AMONG THEM, AND WITH THEM PARTAKES OF THE ROOT AND FATNESS OF THE OLIVE-TREE,... [ Continue Reading ]
BOAST NOT AGAINST THE BRANCHES. BUT IF THOU BOAST, THOU BEAREST NOT THE ROOT, BUT THE ROOT THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU WILT SAY, THEN, THE BRANCHES WERE BROKEN OFF THAT I MIGHT BE GRAFTED IN.... [ Continue Reading ]
WELL; BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF THEY WERE BROKEN OFF, AND THOU STANDEST BY FAITH. BE NOT HIGH-MINDED, BUT FEAR;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT THE NATURAL BRANCHES, TAKE HEED LEST HE ALSO SPARE NOT THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, THEREFORE, THE GOODNESS AND SEVERITY OF GOD: ON THEM WHICH FELL, SEVERITY; BUT TOWARD THEE, GOODNESS, IF THOU CONTINUE IN HIS GOODNESS; OTHERWISE THOU ALSO SHALT BE CUT OFF.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY ALSO, IF THEY ABIDE NOT STILL IN UNBELIEF, SHALL BE GRAFTED IN; FOR GOD IS ABLE TO GRAFT THEM IN AGAIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF THOU WERT CUT OUT OF THE OLIVE-TREE WHICH IS WILD BY NATURE, AND WERT GRAFTED CONTRARY TO NATURE INTO A GOOD OLIVE-TREE, HOW MUCH MORE SHALL THESE, WHICH BE THE NATURAL BRANCHES, BE GRAFTED INTO THEIR OWN OLIVE-TREE! The apostle here guards against a danger, namely, that of misunderstanding h... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I WOULD NOT, BRETHREN, THAT YE SHOULD BE IGNORANT OF THIS MYSTERY, LEST YE SHOULD BE WISE IN YOUR OWN CONCEITS, THAT BLINDNESS IN PART IS HAPPENED TO ISRAEL, UNTIL THE FULLNESS OF THE GENTILES BE COME IN.... [ Continue Reading ]
The fullness of the Gentiles and all Israel:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SO ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED, AS IT IS WRITTEN, THERE SHALL COME OUT OF SION THE DELIVERER, AND SHALL TURN AWAY UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS IS MY COVENANT UNTO THEM WHEN I SHALL TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS. There is here no basis for the millennial dream of the final conversion of all Jews, but the apostle speaks of Israel in the same sense that he has employed almost exclusively in the entire letter. Paul had stated that the total ha... [ Continue Reading ]
AS CONCERNING THE GOSPEL, THEY ARE ENEMIES FOR YOUR SAKES; BUT AS TOUCHING THE ELECTION, THEY ARE BELOVED FOR THE FATHERS' SAKES.... [ Continue Reading ]
God's mercy upon all:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE GIFTS AND CALLING OF GOD ARE WITHOUT REPENTANCE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR AS YE IN TIMES PAST HAVE NOT BELIEVED GOD, YET HAVE NOW OBTAINED MERCY THROUGH THEIR UNBELIEF,... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN SO HAVE THESE ALSO NOW NOT BELIEVED, THAT THROUGH YOUR MERCY THEY ALSO MAY OBTAIN MERCY.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR GOD HATH CONCLUDED THEM ALL IN UNBELIEF THAT HE MIGHT HAVE MERCY UPON ALL. This statement is parallel to the previous one; it makes practically the same assertion regarding the great mass of the unbelieving Jews. According to the Gospel, so far as the Gospel is concerned, they are enemies for yo... [ Continue Reading ]
O THE DEPTH OF THE RICHES BOTH OF THE WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD! HOW UNSEARCHABLE ARE HIS JUDGMENTS, AND HIS WAYS PAST FINDING OUT!... [ Continue Reading ]
A concluding doxology:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHO HATH KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD? OR WHO HATH BEEN HIS COUNSELOR?... [ Continue Reading ]
OR WHO HATH FIRST GIVEN TO HIM, AND IT SHALL BE RECOMPENSED TO HIM AGAIN?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR OF HIM AND THROUGH HIM AND TO HIM ARE ALL THINGS; TO WHOM BE GLORY FOREVER! AMEN. The apostle has brought the historical part of his exposition to a close. And with all the miracles of God's grace and mercy in mind as they appear in His dealing with both Jews and Gentiles, Paul feels constrained... [ Continue Reading ]