John Trapp Complete Commentary
Romans 11:31
Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
Ver. 31. That they also] It noteth not the cause, but the event, as 1 Corinthians 11:19 .
Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
Ver. 31. That they also] It noteth not the cause, but the event, as 1 Corinthians 11:19 .
ROMANS 11:31 @nu/n# (2) {C} Once again external evidence and internal considerations are rather evenly balanced. A preponderance of early and diverse witnesses favors the shorter reading. On the othe...
Verse 31. _EVEN SO HAVE THESE ALSO_] In like manner the Jews are, through their infidelity, shut out of the kingdom of God:- _THAT THROUGH YOUR MERCY_] But this exclusion will not be _everlasting_;...
EVEN SO HAVE THESE ... - That is, the Jews. THAT THROUGH YOUR MERCY ... - The immediate effect of the unbelief of the Jews was to confer salvation on the Gentiles, or to open the way for the preaching...
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 MYSTERY OF ISRAEL'S FUTURE. Romans 11:25_ a_. It may save Gentile believers from a dangerous self-conceit (_cf. Romans 12:16_) to learn the secret that the hardening (see Romans 11:7) which has pa...
Brothers, I do want you to grasp this secret which only those who know God can understand, because I do not want you to become conceited about your own wisdom. I want you to understand that it is only...
THE CALLUS ON THE HEART (Romans 11:1-12)...
_have these also now not believed_ Better, DID THESE DISOBEY. _through your mercy_ Connect these words with "have these not obeyed." The verse will then read; THUS THESE ALSO NOW DISOBEYED THROUGH YOU...
The argument is summed up in a picture of the wide and patient purpose of GOD: the end is to bring both Jew and Gentile under His mercy: in the process both have sinned (cc. Romans 1:18-23) and experi...
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...
The relative positions of Jews and Gentiles, which have just been described in brief, are now elaborated, to show that they both Stand or fall on the same principle, of GOD’s grace and man’s faith; ba...
ΝΥ͂Ν, again under the Gospel, ἨΠΕΊΘΗΣΑΝ refused to obey GOD’s voice speaking in the Gospel, ΤΩ͂Ι Ὑ. Ἐ. owing to the mercy shown to the Gentiles: the wide range of the Gospel was in S. Paul’s experienc...
ΉΠΕΊΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΕΙΘΈΩ (G544) быть непокорным, ΤΩ ΎΜΕΤΈΡΩ ΈΛΈΕΙ (G5212; G1656 посредством (из-за) вашей милости. '0 разных возможных толкованиях этой фразы _см._ Cranfield. ΈΛΕΗΘΏΣΙΝ _...
DISCOURSE: 1901 THE GOSPEL GIVEN TO US AS A DEPOSIT FOR THE JEWS Romans 11:30. _As ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: even so have these also...
FOR AS YE IN TIMES PAST, &C.— When the promise was made to Abraham, the calling of the Gentiles was not a secondary design,to take effect in case the Jew rejected the Gospel, but an absolute purpose,...
_TEXT_ Romans 11:25-32. For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fullness of the Ge...
Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. EVEN SO HAVE THESE (THE JEWS) NOW NOT BELIEVED (OR, 'NOW BEEN DISOBEDIENT'), THAT THROUGH YOUR MERCY (T...
__ Conciliation-National 22 Nothing shows the blindness of Christendom more than their severe denunciation of faithless Israel, yet they are following precisely the same course and have not the slig...
11:31 mercy. (e-20) This means that the Jews would not believe in the mercy shown to the Gentiles, and thus lost the glad tidings of the grace of God for themselves; and thus, their right to the prom...
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...
NOT BELIEVED] RV 'been disobedient.' YOUR MERCY] RV 'the mercy shewn to you.'...
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...
THROUGH YOUR MERCY — _i.e.,_ through the mercy vouchsafed to you. The sight of the admission of the Gentiles is to act as a stimulus upon the Jews, and so lead to a renewal of their faith and obedienc...
HAVE NOT BELIEVED ... UNBELIEF ... NOT BELIEVED ... — Rather, _disobeyed_... _disobedience... disobeyed. _...
(25-32) There was a deep meaning underlying the temporary rejection of Israel, of which he has been speaking — a meaning which has hitherto been kept secret, but now to be revealed as a corrective to...
CHAPTER 24 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL DIRECTLY FORETOLD: ALL IS OF AND FOR GOD Romans 11:25 THUS far St. Paul has rather reasoned than predicted. He has shown his Gentile friends the naturalness, so...
There is the less need, too, that they should be withdrawn, because God makes the very misuse of them contribute to the working out of His universal purpose of redemption. The past unbelief of the Gen...
In this concluding section Paul abandons the ground of argument for that of revelation. He has discussed the problems arising out of the rejection of Israel and the calling of the Gentiles, when taken...
THAT GOD “MIGHT HAVE MERCY UPON ALL” Romans 11:25 “Mysteries” are the reasons and principles of the divine procedure which are hidden from ordinary minds, but revealed to the children of God by the S...
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...
The word νῦν, _now_, strongly contrasts the present period (since the coming of Christ) with the former, Romans 11:30. Now it is the Jews who are passing through their time of disobedience, while the...
“ _For as ye also in time past disobeyed God, but have now obtained mercy by their disobedience; even so have these also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they also may obtain mercy...
God has not then, absolutely speaking, rejected His people; but it is perfectly true that He has hardened and rejected a portion of them. Yet there are two restrictions to be noted here: This chastise...
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. (12) Now if the fall of them be th...
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...
EVEN SO HAVE THESE ALSO NOW NOT BELIEVED,.... Now is the time of the Jews' unbelief, blindness has happened to them, the vail is over their hearts; as the Gentiles formerly did not believe God, so the...
_For as_ ye Believing Gentiles; _in times past_ Before Christ was preached to you; _have not believed God_ Did not believe in the living and true God: or rather, as the words ποτε ηπειθησατε τω θεω si...
THROUGH YOUR MERCY; through the mercy bestowed upon you by God, in bringing you into his church. For the converted Gentiles shall, in their turn, be instrumental in bringing back the Jewish people to...
God's mercy upon all:...
EVEN SO HAVE THESE ALSO NOW NOT BELIEVED, THAT THROUGH YOUR MERCY THEY ALSO MAY OBTAIN MERCY....
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...
Once you, Gentiles, did not believe. Now you have mercy and salvation because of the unbelief of the Jews. 31 Now the Jews, who do not believe, are in need of mercy just like the gentiles once did. T...
BELIEVED: Or, obeyed...
EVEN SO HAVE THESE ALSO NOW BEEN DISOBEDIENT, THAT BY THE MERCY SHOWN TO YOU THEY ALSO MAY NOW OBTAIN MERCY. "THEY ALSO MAY NOW OBTAIN MERCY" -Paul has explained the psychology of this in Romans 11:13...
22-32 Of all judgments, spiritual judgments are the sorest; of these the apostle is here speaking. The restoration of the Jews is, in the course of things, far less improbable than the call of the Ge...
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even so have these [the Jews] _also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they also may now obtain mercy_. [How the Gentile received blessing by reason of the casting off of the Jew has...
Romans 11:31 so G3779 these G3778 also G2532 have G544 now G3568 disobedient G544 (G5656) that G2443 mercy...
THE GENTILE CHRISTIANS ARE TO RECOGNISE BOTH THE GOODNESS AND SEVERITY OF GOD (11:22-32). So the Gentile Christians are to recognise both the goodness and the severity of God. Towards the unbelieving...
GOD HAS ESTABLISHED A TRUE ISRAEL BASED ON THE REMNANT WHO HAVE RESPONDED TO THE MESSIAH, WITH THE FALSE ISRAEL BEING AT LEAST TEMPORARILY CAST OFF, TO BE RESTORED IF THEY TURN TO THE MESSIAH AND REJO...
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...
‘For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, even so have these also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they also may now obta...
Romans 11:31. SO ALSO; the cases are parallel. HAVE THESE (Jews) NOW, since the gospel of Christ was preached, BEEN DISOBEDIENT; lit., ‘were disobedient,' as in Romans 11:30, but ‘now' compels us to...
2. _The Rejection of Israel is not Final._ In this section is presented the prospective solution of the great historical problem, discussed in this part of the Epistle. Here Paul becomes a prophet; r...
BY THE MERCY SHOWN TO YOU (τω υμετερω ελεε). Objective sense of υμετερος (possessive pronoun, your). Proleptic position also for the words go with ελεηθωσιν (first aorist passive subjunctive of ελε...
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...
IN ORDER THAT THEY ALSO. Some Jews disobeyed God because they saw the Gentiles coming to Christ. Paul's point is that both Gentile and Jew will receive God's mercy in Christ. Compare Romans 3:21-24....
_For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy._ THE MEMORY OF THE PAST SHOULD 1. Promote humility. 2. Awaken gratitude. 3. Soften our censures. 4. Strengthen our hop...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 11:30 God saved the Gentiles when one would have expected only the Jews to be saved. In the future he will amaze all by saving the Jews. It will be clear that everyone’s salvatio...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 11:11 God’s saving righteousness is seen in the salvation of Israel at the end of history, and in his saving plan for both Jews and Gentiles. ⇐...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Romans 11:29_ The unchangeableness of God’s attitude towards men.—It is difficult to comprehend that, while change and decay are recognised everywhere in men and in...
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...
Romans 10:16; Romans 11:15; Romans 11:25...