Have they stumbled that they should fall? irrecoverably fall? Will the great body of the Jews always continue in unbelief, and all for ever perish? Certainly not.

Salvation is come unto the Gentiles; the rejection of the Messiah by the Jews was made the occasion of his being preached to the Gentiles, and many among them being led to believe on him. After a time the Jews also shall believe on him and be saved.

For to provoke them to jealousy; to provoke the Jews to jealousy, while they witness the great privileges to which the Gentiles are admitted through faith in Christ. The apostle alludes to the passage which he had quoted from Deuteronomy 32:21 : "I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people."

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