‘For I say that Christ has been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,'

Thus, in the first place, the Messiah has been made a minister of the circumcision (the Jews) in order to establish among them the truth of God, so that He might confirm to those who have accepted that truth, the promises given to the fathers. Thus the promises are seen as confirmed in that they have been fulfilled with regard to all who responded to the Messiah, that is, to ‘the elect'. This might be seen as confirming that Romans 11:28 b also refers only to the elect. The promises had not been overlooked, they were to be fulfilled in the elect. Note the emphasis on the fact that the Messiah brought ‘the truth of God'. It is only to those in acceptance of that truth that the promises apply (the argument in Chapter s 9-11).

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