Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 11:5
According to the election of grace — According to that gracious purpose of God, "He that believeth shall be saved."
According to the election of grace — According to that gracious purpose of God, "He that believeth shall be saved."
Verse Romans 11:5. _EVEN SO THEN AT THIS PRESENT TIME_] As in the present day the irreligion of the Jews is very great; yet there is a _remnant_, a considerable number, who have accepted of the grace...
AT THIS PRESENT TIME - In the time when the apostle wrote. Though the mass of the nation was to be rejected, yet it did not follow that all were to be excluded from the favor of God. As in the time of...
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)...
AT. App-104. TIME. See Romans 3:26. REMNANT. Greek. _leimma._ Only here. Compare Romans 9:27. ACCORDING TO. App-104. ELECTION. See Romans 9:11. GRACE. See...
_at this present time_ In which the mournful phenomenon of Jewish unbelief occasioned this whole discussion. _there is_ Lit. THERE HATH BEEN: it was and still is. _a remnant_ A RESERVE, A LEAVING. Th...
ΛΊΜΜΑ only here in N. T.; cf. Romans 9:27 (ὑπολ. or καταλ. seems to be the usual word in LXX[211]). [211] LXX. the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament ΚΑΤ' ἘΚΛΟΓῊΝ ΧΆΡΙΤΟΣ on a principle of selec...
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 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...
ΟΎΤΩΣ (G3779) так. Относится к внутреннему сходству между двумя фактами, ибо в обоих проявляется один и тот же принцип (Godet). ΟΎΝ ΚΑΊ (G3767; G2532 затем, также. Эти слова относятся к моральной нео...
DISCOURSE: 1893 THE LORD’S PEOPLE A CHOSEN REMNANT Romans 11:5. _Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace_. IT is the part both of wisdom and of lo...
_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...
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. EVEN SO THEN AT THIS PRESENT TIME, [ en (G1722) too (G3588) nun (G3568) kairoo ...
__ 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...
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...
As there was a remnant then, so also is there a remnant now. That there should be so is due not to any human merit on the part of those exempted from the fate of their nation, but to the spontaneous a...
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...
Application of the principle of Romans 11:4 to the present. ὁ νῦν καιρὸς is the present regarded not merely as a date, but as in some sense a crisis. λεῖμμα γέγονεν : a remnant has come to be this is...
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...
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the (d) election of grace. (d) The election of grace is not that by which men chose grace, but by which God chose us of his grac...
This verse applies the case of the seven thousand to present circumstances. The _remnant_, of whom the apostle speaks, evidently denotes the small portion of the Jewish people who in Jesus have recogn...
“ _But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. Even so then, at this present time also there is a remnant according to...
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...
EVEN SO THEN AT THIS PRESENT TIME ALSO,.... In which the apostle lived, the time of preaching the Gospel, the accepted time, the day of salvation, which then was, and also now is; at that time when th...
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. Ver. 5. _According to the election of grace_] St Paul was _Constantissimus gratiae praedicator, _ as Aust...
_But what saith the answer_ Recollect the answer which God gave to this doleful complaint; _I have reserved to myself_ To maintain my honour and true worship, I have preserved by my providence and gra...
A REMNANT; a small number of the Jewish nation who belong to his redeemed people, and to whom his promises to Abraham of spiritual blessings, were made. Galatians 3:29. ELECTION OF GRACE; God's gracio...
An example from history:...
EVEN SO, THEN, AT THIS PRESENT TIME ALSO, THERE IS A REMNANT ACCORDING TO THE ELECTION OF GRACE....
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...
This is the "remnant" - small part that remains According to election - God decided to save those that remain faithful to Him. This is the remenant. Of Grace - God could have judged all on the basis...
EVEN SO THEN AT THIS PRESENT TIME ALSO THERE IS. REMNANT ACCORDING TO THE ELECTION OF GRACE. "EVEN SO" -'In the same way' (NASV) "AT THIS PRESENT TIME" -'Having made his point that 7001 constituted G...
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...
q.d. As it was in the times of Elias, so it is now; THERE IS A REMNANT of the Jews, which God hath graciously elected; therefore their rejection is not total, which was the thing to be proved. Though...
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. [Resuming, the argument. "As at the time of the great deflection in Elijah's day there seemed to him to be...
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI But since the lost sheep of the house of Israel, with the exception of "the remnant according to the election of grace,"[178]...
Romans 11:5 so G3779 then G3767 G2532 at G1722 present G3568 time G2540 is G1096 (G5754) remnant...
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...
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...
‘Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.' Paul then defines these 7,000 as ‘a remnant according to the election of grace' (a description demonstra...
Romans 11:5. EVEN SO THEN, or, ‘thus therefore;' in accordance with this historical fact which indicates _(‘_ therefore') a permanent principle, IN THIS PRESENT TIME ALSO, as well as in the similar an...
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...
REMNANT (λιμμα). Old word, but only here in N.T., but in papyri also and with this spelling rather than λειμμα. From λειπω, to leave.ACCORDING TO THE ELECTION OF GRACE (κατ' εκλογην χαριτος). As...
REMNANT Remnant, Summary: In the history of Israel, a "remnant" may be discerned, a spiritual Israel within the national Israel. In Elijah's time, 7,000 had not bowed the knee to Baal (1 Kings 19:18...
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...
IT IS THE SAME WAY NOW. God's answer in Romans 11:4. AT THIS TIME. In the Greek, this points to the present time (as Paul writes) as a CLIMAX. The idea is the same as Romans 9:6-13. BECAUSE OF HIS MER...
_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...
Ephesians 1:5; Ephesians 1:6; Romans 9:27; Romans 11:28; Romans 11:6;...
Here we have St. Paul making application of the foregoing example to the present case. As Elias was not alone in the corrupt state of Israel then, so neither was the apostle alone now, in this time of...