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Romans 11:3
Lord, they have killed Thy prophets, and digged down Thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life?
Lord, they have killed Thy prophets, and digged down Thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life?
Verse Romans 11:3. _LORD, THEY HAVE KILLED THY PROPHETS_] They will not permit any person to speak unto them in thy name; and they murder those who are faithful to the commission which they have recei...
LORD, THEY HAVE KILLED ... - This is taken from 1 Kings 19:10. The quotation is not literally made, but the sense is preserved. This was a charge which Elijah brought against the whole nation; and the...
ISRAEL'S RESTORATION. CHAPTER 11 (“The Jewish Question”, by A. C. G., gives a complete exposition of this great chapter.) _ 1. God Hath not Cast Away His People. (Romans 11:1 .)_ 2. Israel's Apost...
THE ELECT REMNANT. Paul comes to the third part of his proof that God's word to Israel has not fallen through, despite the national rejection of Jesus Christ. ROMANS 11:1; ROMANS 11:2_ A._ That God h...
So then, I ask, "Has God repudiated his people?" God forbid! I, too, am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not repudiated his people whom long ago he mar...
THE CALLUS ON THE HEART (Romans 11:1-12)...
LORD. App-98. HAVE. Omit. DIGGED DOWN. overthrew. See Acts 15:16. LEFT. Greek. _hupoleipo._ Only here....
_Lord, they have killed_, &c. 1 Kings 19:10. The quotation is not precisely with either LXX. or Heb.; but substantially exact. The Gr. past verbs here are aorists. This, and not the evangelical equali...
The failure of Israel does not even now constitute a rejection by GOD. As in former times of apostasy there is a faithful remnant in whom the faithfulness and graciousness of GOD is still seen. And in...
E. Romans 9:1 to Romans 11:36. THE REJECTION OF THE GOSPEL BY ISRAEL The theme of Romans 1:16-17 has been worked out; it has been shown that the Gospel is a power of GOD unto salvation for them that b...
3, 4. 1 Kings 19:10; 1 Kings 19:18....
ΆΠΈΚΤΕΙΝΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΚΤΕΊΝΩ (G615) убивать, ΘΥΣΙΑΣΤΉΡΙΟΝ (G2379) алтарь, жертвенник, ΚΑΤΈΣΚΑΨΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΑΣΚΌΠΤΩ (G2679) подкапывать, сносить, ΎΠΕΛΕΊΦΘΗΝ _aor. ind. pass....
DIGGED DOWN THINE ALTARS— It hence seems, that though, according to the law there was only _one altar_ for sacrifice, and that in the place where God had fixed his peculiar residence; yet, by some spe...
_TEXT_ Romans 11:1-10. I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. Romans 11:2 God did not cast off his people wh...
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. LORD, THEY HAVE KILLED THY PROPHETS, [AND] DIGGED DOWN THINE ALTARS. The two bracketed...
__ Justification-National 18 The proclamation of the gospel of the kingdom, beginning in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, spread to the limits of the land (Act_1:8), and reached beyond it to...
LORD, etc.] from 1 Kings 19:10....
ISRAEL'S REJECTION NOT FINAL. A WARNING TO THE GENTILES In this chapter St. Paul brings to an end his great exposition of God's dealings with the Jews. He has shown in Romans 9 that God is free to cho...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 11 GOD’S PLAN FOR *ISRAEL’S FUTURE 11:1-32 THE RESULTS OF THE *JEWS’ FAILURE TO OBEY GOD 11:1-12 V1 So, I tell you th...
I AM LEFT ALONE — _i.e.,_ of the prophets....
CHAPTER 22 ISRAEL, HOWEVER, NOT FORSAKEN Romans 11:1 "A PEOPLE disobeying and contradicting." So the Lord of Israel, through the Prophet, had described the nation. Let us remember as we pass on what...
λέγω οὖν : the οὖν intimates that it is with the conclusion reached in chap. 10 before his mind that Paul puts the following question: the unbelief of Israel naturally suggested it. μὴ ἀπώσατο ὁ θεὸς...
A REMNANT SAVED BY GRACE Romans 11:1 In the worst days of Hebrew apostasy there was always an elect handful that did not go astray after other gods. It was so in the days of Elijah; and it was a comf...
This discussion now gives rise to a new question, "Did God cast off His people?" They were created a nation in order that through them all the nations should be blessed. Failing to realize the divine...
In the Hebrew text the second clause of the verse is put first; it is needless to seek an intention for this inversion. Mention is made of “ _altars_ of God,” though according to the law there was, pr...
“ _God hath not cast away His people which He foreknew. Or wot ye not what the Scripture saith in the passage about Elijah; how he maketh intercession to God against Israel:Lord, they have killed Thy...
The _partial_ character of the rejection of God's people is proved, first by the conversion of St. Paul himself (Romans 11:1); then by the existence of a whole Judeo-Christian church (Romans 11:2-6)....
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. (2) God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
Hereupon the question is immediately raised, has God then rejected His people? To this Chapter 11 is the answer. The apostle gives three proofs that it is by no means the case. Firstly, he is himself...
LORD, THEY HAVE KILLED THY PROPHETS,.... By the order of Jezebel, wife of Ahab king of Israel, 1 Kings 18:4. This sin of slaying the prophets of the Lord is charged upon the Jews by Christ, Matthew 2...
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. Ver. 3. _And I am left alone_] To withstand and reform the common corruptions. Some have...
_I say then_, &c. As if he had said, We have just seen how the perverseness of the Jews and the calling of the Gentiles have been foretold; but do I say then that God hath entirely cast off his whole...
ISRAEL YET TO BE RESTORED We have seen in Romans 9:1 that there is an election according to the grace of God in Israel: in Romans 10:1 this is shown to be on the basis of faith in contrast to law: now...
God has not cast us away. Take the case of Elijah - makes intercession to God against Israel - NOTE: "Wot ye not" What does this mean? 3 Israel has killed all the prophets - I am the only one left....
LORD, THEY HAVE KILLED THY PROPHETS, THEY HAVE DIGGED DOWN THINE ALTARS; AND. AM LEFT ALONE, AND THEY SEEK MY LIFE. (1 Kings 2:10; 1 Kings 2:14) 'The Apostle (Paul), like the prophet, was lonely and...
1-10 There was a chosen remnant of believing Jews, who had righteousness and life by faith in Jesus Christ. These were kept according to the election of grace. If then this election was of grace, it...
See 1 KINGS 19:10,14. DIGGED DOWN THINE ALTARS: these were not the altars of the high places, for they are commended that cast them down; nor the altars in the temple at Jerusalem, for they were out o...
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. [Against these two proofs adduced by the apostle it might be objected that if God w...
Romans 11:3 LORD G2962 killed G615 (G5656) Your G4675 prophets G4396 and G2532 down G2679 (G5656) Your...
GOD'S PURPOSE FOR ISRAEL IS BEING FULFILLED THROUGH A REMNANT (11:1-10). Paul now deals with the question as to whether Israel has been ‘cast off'. And his reply is ‘certainly not', and this reply is...
Paul then illustrates the fact that not the whole of Israel has been cast off by reference to 1 Kings 19:10; 1 Kings 19:14; 1 Kings 19:18. It was in the portion read in the synagogues under the headin...
GOD'S PURPOSE WITH REGARD BOTH TO THE JEWS AND THE GENTILES (11:1-36). Paul now carries forward the doctrine of the Israel within Israel, and evidences it again from Scripture, making clear that those...
Romans 11:3. LORD, THEY HAVE KILLED, etc. This verse is freely cited from the LXX.; 1 Kings 19:10 (Romans 11:14 is a repetition of Romans 11:10). T
1. _The Rejection of Israel is not Total._ This section opens with the question (‘Did God cast off His people?'), which the whole chapter answers in the negative, and which Paul discusses with a feeli...
THEY HAVE DIGGED DOWN (κατεσκαψαν). First aorist active indicative of κατασκαπτω, to dig under or down. Old verb, here only in N.T. (critical text). LXX has καθειλαν "pulled down." Paul has reversed...
CONTENTS: A spiritual Israel finding salvation. National Israel blinded. Warning to Gentiles. Israel yet to be saved nationally. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Elijah, David, Abraham. CONCLUSION: The...
Romans 11:1. _Hath God cast away his people?_ The jews would say, what else can we infer? If the gentiles are now become the Israel of God, and if we are rejected for not embracing what Paul calls the...
I AM THE ONLY ONE LEFT. Paul, like Elijah, was lonely and persecuted, and Israel as a nation seemed to have abandoned God or been abandoned by Him. But Paul better understands God's way (and His faith...
_God hath not cast away His people._ GOD HATH NOT CAST OFF HIS PEOPLE This is proved by-- I. The known facts of their history--Paul and his companions in the faith. II. The secret operations of th...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 11:3 God assured Elijah that he had preserved a REMNANT who still followed him (1 Kings 19:18). As in Paul’s day and today, a remnant of Jews
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 11:1.—Μὴ�; Did God cast off His own people? Observe the aorist. When God accepted a universal Church from all nations in Christ, did He by so doing cast off His own people the...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 11:1 (4) _The_ _Jews are not finally rejected, but, through the calling of the Gentiles, will be brought into the Church at last. _St. Paul, painfully recognizing the fact of the pr...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Romans, chapter 11. In Chapter s 9-11 Paul is dealing with a couple of subjects; one the sovereignty of God, but it is the sovereignty of God in setting aside the nation...
1 Kings 18:13; 1 Kings 18:30; 1 Kings 18:31; 1 Kings 18:4; 1
They have killed thy prophets - and digged, etc. Paul gives the first two clauses in reverse order from both Septuagint and Hebrew. Digged down [κ α τ ε σ κ α ψ α ν]. Sept., kaqeilan pulled down.. Th...
1 Kings 19:10....