Romans 11:1
Hath God rejected his whole people — All Israel? In no wise. Now there is "a remnant" who believe, Romans 11:5; and hereafter "all Israel will be saved," Romans 11:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
Hath God rejected his whole people — All Israel? In no wise. Now there is "a remnant" who believe, Romans 11:5; and hereafter "all Israel will be saved," Romans 11:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
God hath not rejected that part of his people whom he foreknew — Speaking after the manner of men. For, in fact, knowing and foreknowing are the same thing with God, who knows or sees all things at once, from everlasting to everlasting. Know ye not — That in a parallel case, amidst a general apostas... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Kings 19:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
To Baal — Nor to the golden calves.... [ Continue Reading ]
According to the election of grace — According to that gracious purpose of God, "He that believeth shall be saved.... [ Continue Reading ]
And if by grace, then it is no more of works — Whether ceremonial or moral. Else grace is no longer grace — The very nature of grace is lost. And if it be of works, then it is no more grace: else work is no longer work — But the very nature of it is destroyed. There is something so absolutely incons... [ Continue Reading ]
What then — What is the conclusion from the whole? It is this: that Israel in general hath not obtained justification; but those of them only who believe. And the rest were blinded — By their own wilful prejudice.... [ Continue Reading ]
God hath at length withdrawn his Spirit, and so given them up to a spirit of slumber; which is fulfilled unto this day. Isaiah 29:10... [ Continue Reading ]
And David saith — In that prophetic imprecation, which is applicable to them, as well as to Judas. A recompence — Of their preceding wickedness. So sin is punished by sin; and thus the gospel, which should have fed and strengthened their souls, is become a means of destroying them. Psalms 69:22... [ Continue Reading ]
Have they stumbled so as to fall — Totally and finally? No But by their fall — Or slip: it is a very soft word in the original. Salvation is come to the gentiles — See an instance of this, Acts 13:46. To provoke them — The Jews themselves, to jealousy.... [ Continue Reading ]
The first part of this verse is treated of, Romans 11:13, &c; the latter, How much more their fulness, (that is, their full conversion,) Romans 11:23, &c. So many prophecies refer to this grand event, that it is surprising any Christian can doubt of it. And these are greatly confirmed by the wonderf... [ Continue Reading ]
I magnify my office — Far from being ashamed of ministering to the gentiles, I glory therein; the rather, as it may be a means of provoking my brethren to jealousy.... [ Continue Reading ]
My flesh — My kinsmen.... [ Continue Reading ]
Life from the dead — Overflowing life to the world, which was dead.... [ Continue Reading ]
And this will surely come to pass. For if the first fruits be holy, so is the lump — The consecration of them was esteemed the consecration of all and so the conversion of a few Jews is an earnest of the conversion of all the rest. And if the root be holy — The patriarchs from whom they spring, sure... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou — O gentile. Being a wild olive tree — Had the graft been nobler than the stock, yet its dependance on it for life and nourishment would leave it no room to boast against it. How much less, when, contrary to what is practised among men, the wild olive tree is engrafted on the good!... [ Continue Reading ]
Boast not against the branches — Do not they do this who despise the Jews? or deny their future conversion?... [ Continue Reading ]
They were broken off for unbelief, and thou standest by faith — Both conditionally, not absolutely: if absolutely, there might have been room to boast. By faith — The free gift of God, which therefore ought to humble thee.... [ Continue Reading ]
Be not highminded, but fear — We may observe, this fear is not opposed to trust, but to pride and security.... [ Continue Reading ]
Else shalt thou — Also, who now "standest by faith," be both totally and finally cut off.... [ Continue Reading ]
Contrary to nature — For according to nature, we graft the fruitful branch into the wild stock; but here the wild branch is grafted into the fruitful stock.... [ Continue Reading ]
St. Paul calls any truth known but to a few, a mystery. Such had been the calling of the gentiles: such was now the conversion of the Jews. Lest ye should be wise in your own conceits — Puffed up with your present advantages; dreaming that ye are the only church; or that the church of Rome cannot fa... [ Continue Reading ]
And so all Israel shall be saved — Being convinced by the coming of the gentiles. But there will be a still larger harvest among the gentiles, when all Israel is come in. The deliverer shall come — Yea, the deliverer is come; but not the full fruit of his coming. Isaiah 59:20... [ Continue Reading ]
They are now enemies — To the gospel, to God, and to themselves, which God permits. For your sake: but as for the election — That part of them who believe, they are beloved.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance — God does not repent of his gifts to the Jews, or his calling of the gentiles.... [ Continue Reading ]
For God hath shut up all together in disobedience — Suffering each in their turn to revolt from him. First, God suffered the gentiles in the early age to revolt, and took the family of Abraham as a peculiar seed to himself. Afterwards he permitted them to fall through unbelief, and took in the belie... [ Continue Reading ]
O the depth of the riches, and wisdom, and knowledge of God — In the ninth chapter, St. Paul had sailed but in a narrow sea: now he is in the ocean. The depth of the riches is described, Romans 11:35; the depth of wisdom, Romans 11:34; the depth of knowledge, in the latter part of this verse. Wisdom... [ Continue Reading ]
Who hath known the mind of the Lord — Before or any farther than he has revealed it. Isaiah 40:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
Given to him — Either wisdom or power?... [ Continue Reading ]
Of him — As the Creator. Through him — As the Preserver. To him — As the ultimate end, are all things. To him be the glory of his riches, wisdom, knowledge. Amen — A concluding word, in which the affection of the apostle, when it is come to the height, shuts up all.... [ Continue Reading ]