Romans 11:25

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. FOR I WOULD NOT, BRETHREN, THAT YE SHOULD BE IGNORANT OF THIS MYSTERY. The word "mystery," so often used by our apostle, does not mean, as with us, something incomprehensible, but 'something before kept secret, either wholly, or for the most part, and now only fully disclosed,' (cf. Romans 16:25; 1 Corinthians 2:7; Ephesians 1:9; Ephesians 3:3;...

25._I would not, etc. _Here he rouses his hearers to a greater attention, while he avows that he is going to declare something that was secret. Nor did he do this without reason; for he wished to conclude, by a brief or plain sentence, a very perplexed question; and yet he declares what no one could have expected. But the words, _Lest ye should be proud in yourselves, _(361) show what was his designed object; and that was, to check the arrogance of the Gentiles, lest they should exult over the Jews. This admonition was also necessary, lest the defection of that people should immoderately disturb the minds of the weak, as though the salvation of them all was to be forever despaired of. The same is still not less useful to us at this day, so that we may know, that the salvation of the remnant, whom the Lord will at length gather to himself, is hid, sealed as it were by his signet. And when...

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 Gentiles to be the children of Abraham; and though others now possess these privileges, it will not hinder their being admitted again. By rejecting the gospel, and by their indignation at its being preached to the Gentiles, the Jews were become enemies to God; yet they are still to be favoured for the sake of their pious fathers. Though at present they are enemies to the gospel, for their hatred to the Gentiles; yet, when God's time is come, that will no longer exist, and God's love to their fathers will be remembered. True grace seeks not to confine God's favour. Those who find mercy themselves, should endeavour that through their mercy others also may obtain mercy. Not that the Jews will be...

Verse 25. _I WOULD NOT-THAT YE SHOULD BE IGNORANT OF THIS_ _MYSTERY_] Mystery, μυστηριον, signifies any thing that is _hidden_ or _covered_, or not _fully made manifest_. The Greek word seems to have been borrowed from the Hebrew מסתר _mistar_, from the root סתר _sathar_, to _hide, conceal_, c. though some derive it from μυεισθαι, _to be initiated into sacred rites_, from μυειν, _to_ _shut up_. In the New Testament it signifies, generally, _any thing_ _or doctrine that has not, in former times, been fully known to_ _men:_ or, _something that has not been heard of, _or_ which is so_ _deep, profound, and difficult of comprehension, that it cannot be_ _apprehended without special direction and instruction_: here it signifies the doctrine of the _future restoration of the Jews_, not fully known in _itself_, and not at all known as to the _time_ in which it wil...

IGNORANT OF THIS MYSTERY - The word “mystery” means properly what is “concealed, hidden, or unknown.” And it especially refers, in the New Testament, to the truths or doctrines which God had reserved to himself, or had not before communicated. It does not mean, as with us often, that there was anything unintelligible or inscrutible in the nature of the doctrine itself, for it was commonly perfectly plain when it was made known. Thus, the doctrine, that the division between the Jews and the Gentiles was to be broken down, is called a mystery, because it had been, to the times of the apostles, concealed, and was then revealed fully for the first time; Romans 16:25; Colossians 1:26; compare...

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

FOR I WOULD NOT, BRETHREN,.... The apostle in order to raise the attention of the Gentiles to what he was about to deliver to them, not only styles them "brethren", expressing his affection for them, and their relation to him and other believing Jews, and to one another, being all one in Christ Jesus, partakers of the same grace, and heirs of the same glory; but also tells them, that what he had to acquaint them with was a "mystery", a thing secret and hidden, which had not been heard of and known, at least not so fully and clearly as he was about to reveal it; and because of his great respect for them, he was unwilling, as he says, THAT YE SHOULD BE IGNORANT OF THIS MYSTERY; he was desirous that they should abound and improve in all spiritual knowledge and judgment, and, among the rest, be better informed of this particular article, the call of the Jews: and his view in apprizing them...

FULLNESS The "fullness of the Gentiles" is the completion of the purpose of God in this age, namely, the outcalling from among the Gentiles of a people for Christ's name, "the church which is His body" (Ephesians 1:22); (Ephesians 1:23) Compare (Acts 15:14); (Ephesians 4:11); (1 Corinthians 12:12); (1 Corinthians 12:13). It must be distinguished from "the times of the Gentiles" ...

ROMANS 11:25 @parV# {C} Although it can be argued that the simple dative, without a preposition, may be the original reading (supported, as it is, by î46 F G Y 1739 _al_) and that the difficulty of construing the sense prompted scribes to insert evn or parV, the Committee decided that it would be safest to adopt parV, which is strongly supported by a C D _al_, but to enclose it within square brackets in order to indicate considerable doubt whether it belongs in the text....

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. ...