Romans 11:1

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. The scope of this chapter is to explain the present condition, and open up the future prospects of Israel; and the sum of it is, that although God might seem to have cast off His covenant-people, this rejection was neither total nor final: not total, for even now there is a chosen remnant, that have believed through grace; not final, for a time is coming when all Israel shall be saved. First: Even Now, Israel is Not WHOLLY Rejected (Romans 11:1) I SAY THEN, HATH ('DID') GOD CAST AWAY HIS PEOPLE? GOD FORBID. Our Lord did indeed announce that 'the kingdom of God should be taken from Israel' (); and when asked by the Eleven,...

1._I say then, etc. _What he has hitherto said of the blindness and obstinacy of the Jews, might seem to import that Christ at his coming had transferred elsewhere the promises of God, and deprived the Jews of every hope of salvation. This objection is what he anticipates in this passage, and he so modifies what he had previously said respecting the repudiation of the Jews, that no one might think that the covenant formerly made with Abraham is now abrogated, or that God had so forgotten it that the Jews were now so entirely alienated from his kingdom, as the Gentiles were before the coming of Christ. All this he denies, and he will presently show that it is altogether false. But the question is not whether God had justly or unjustly rejected the people; for it was proved in the last chapter that when the people, through false zeal, had rejected the righteousness of God, they suffered a...

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 could not be of works, either performed or foreseen. Every truly good disposition in a fallen creature must be the effect, therefore it cannot be the cause, of the grace of God bestowed on him. Salvation from the first to the last must be either of grace or of debt. These things are so directly contrary to each other that they cannot be blended together. God glorifies his grace by changing the hearts and tempers of the rebellious. How then should they wonder and praise him! The Jewish nation were as in a deep sleep, without knowledge of their danger, or concern about it; having no sense of their need of the Saviour, or of their being upon the borders of eternal ruin. David, having by the Spi...

CHAPTER XI. _God has not universally nor finally rejected Israel; nor are_ _they all at present rejecters of the Gospel, for there is a_ _remnant of true believers now, as there was in the days of the_ _Prophet Elijah_, 1-5. _These have embraced the Gospel, and are saved by grace, and not_ _by the works of the law_, 6. _The body of the Israelites, having rejected this, are blinded,_ _according to the prophetic declaration of David_, 7-10. _But they have not stumbled, so as to be finally rejected; but_ through their fall, salva

I SAY THEN - This expression is to be regarded as conveying the sense of an objection. Paul, in the previous chapters, had declared the doctrine that all the Jews were to be rejected. To this a Jew might naturally reply, Is it to be believed, that God would cast off his people whom he had once chosen; to whom pertained the adoption, and the promises, and the covenant, and the numerous blessings conferred on a favorite people? It was natural for a Jew to make such objections. And it was important for the apostle to show that his doctrine was consistent with all the promises which God had made to his people. The objection, as will be seen by the answer which Paul makes, is formed on the supposition that God had rejected “all his people,” or “cast them off entirely.” This objection he answers by showing, * That God had saved him, a Jew, and therefore that he could not mean that God had ea...

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 present exclusion of Israel as a nation from the inheritance of the promises made to their fathers, and having in Romans 9:1. and 10. accounted for and justified such exclusion, proceeds now to the question—But is Israel as a nation finally rejected after all? He answers—No; impossible! God's ancient covenant with his people stands; the remnant of believers even now is a sign of his continued favour to his ancient people, as was, in the time of Elijah, the remnant that had not bowed the knee to Baal; nor does the fact of its being a remnant only imply now, any more

I SAY THEN, HATH GOD CAST AWAY HIS PEOPLE?.... The Alexandrian, copy adds here, "whom he foreknew", as in Romans 11:2: upon the citation of the above passages out of Moses and Isaiah, relating to the calling of the Gentiles, and the rejection of the Jews, the apostle saw an objection would arise, which he here takes up from the mouth of an adversary, and proposes it; in which is suggested, that God has cast away all his people the Jews, according to this count; and if so, where is his covenant with Abraham? what is become of his promises? and how is his faithfulness to be accounted for? and what hope can any Israelite have of ever obtaining salvation? than which, nothing can be thought more injurious to God, and absurd in itself. This was an old prejudice of the Jewish nation, and still continues, that God never would, nor has he cast them away, even in their present condition; it is one...

CAST That Israel has not been forever set aside is the theme of this chapter. (1) The salvation of Paul proves that there is still a remnant (Romans 11:1) (2) The doctrine of the remnant proves it (Romans 11:2). (3) The present national unbelief was foreseen (Romans 11:7). (4) Israel's unbelief is the Gentile opportunity (Romans 11:11). (5) Israel is judicially broken off from the good olive tree, Christ (Romans 11:17). (6) They are to be grafted in again ...

ROMANS 11:1 to.n lao,n {A} Instead of to.n lao,n several witnesses (î46 G itg goth _al_) read th.n klhronomi,an, which appears to be a Western assimilation to Psalms 94:14 [= LXX 93:14] o[ti ouvk avpw,setai ku,rioj to.n lao.n auvtou/( kai. th.n klhronomi,an auvtou/ ouvk evgkatalei,yei....

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 Apostasy not Complete; a Remnant Saved. (Romans 11:2 .) 3. Israel's Blindness for a Season. (Romans 11:7 .) 4. To Provoke Them to Jealousy. (Romans 11:11 .) 5. Their Fulness and Reception Life from the Dead. (Romans 11:12 .) 6. The Parable of the Two Olive Trees. ...