Romans 11:6

And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. AND ('NOW') IF (IT BE) BY GRACE - that is, the Election, [THEN] IS IT NO MORE OF WORKS; OTHERWISE GRACE ('BECOMES') IS NO MORE GRACE. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace; otherwise work is no more work. (The latter of these statements, beginning with "But," has very weighty external evidence against it; but, with Tischendorf, we retain it for the reasons stated by him. (See also Fritzsche's long and able note. Such seeming redundancies are not unusual with our apostle.) The general position here laid down is fundamental, and of unspeakable importance. It may be thus expressed: There are but two possible sources of salvation-men's works and God's grace; and these are so essentially distinct and opposite, that s...

6._If through grace, it is no more by works, etc. _This amplification is derived from a comparison between things of an opposite character; for such is the _case _between God’s grace and the merit of works, that he who establishes the one overturns the other. But if no regard to works can be admitted in election, without obscuring the gratuitous goodness of God, which he designed thereby to be so much commended to us, what answer can be given to Paul by those infatuated persons, _( __phrenetici _ — _insane,) _who make the cause of election to be that worthiness in us which God has foreseen? For whether you introduce works future or past, this declaration of Paul opposes you; for he says, that grace leaves nothing to works. Paul speaks not here of our reconciliation with God, nor of the means, nor of the proximate causes of our salvation; but he ascends higher, even to this, — why God, be...

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...

Verse Romans 11:6. _AND IF BY GRACE_] And let this very remnant of pious Jews, who have believed in Christ Jesus, know that _they_ are brought in, precisely in the same way as God has brought in the _Gentiles_; the one having no more _worthiness_ to plead than the other; _both_ being brought in, and continued in by God's free grace, and not by any observance of the Mosaic law. And this is done _according to the election of grace_, or the _rule_ of choosing any persons to be the people of God upon the footing of grace; which takes in all that _believe_ in his Son Jesus Christ: some of the Jewish people did so believe; therefore those believing Jews are a _remnant according to the election of grace_. They are saved in that way in which alone God will save mankind. _AND IF BY GRACE_] Then let these very

AND IF GRACE ... - If the fact that any are reserved be by grace, or favor, then it cannot be as a reward of merit. Paul thus takes occasion incidentally to combat a favorite notion of the Jews, that we are justified by obedience to the Law. He reminds them that in the time of Elijah it was because God had reserved them; that the same was the case now; and therefore their doctrine of merit could not be true; see Romans 4:4; Galatians 5:4; Ephesians 2:8. OTHERWISE GRACE ... - If people are justified by their works, it could not be a matter of favor, but was a debt. If it could be that the doctrine of justification by grace could be held and yet at the s

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

AND IF BY GRACE, THEN IS IT NO MORE OF WORKS,.... Upon election, being called "the election of grace", the apostle forms an argument, showing the contrariety and inconsistency of grace, and works, in that affair; proving, that it must be by the one or the other: and if by the one, then not by the other; and that these two cannot be mixed and blended together in this matter. If election is "by grace", as it certainly is; for no other reason can be given why God has chose one, and not another, but his own sovereign pleasure, or that free favour and unmerited love, with which he loves one and not another; and not because they are better, or had done or would do better things than others; "then it is no more", or not at all, for it never was "of works", was not influenced by them, does not arise from them, for it passed before ever any were done; and those that are done aright spring from it...

ROMANS 11:6 ca,rij (2) {A} After ca,rij the Textus Receptus, following ac (B) L Y and later manuscripts, adds eiv de. evx e;rgwn ouvke,ti evsti. ca,rij evpei. to. e;rgon ouvke,ti evsti.n e;rgon (“But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work” AV). There appears to be no reason why, if the words were original, they should have been deleted. The existence of several forms of the addition likewise throws doubt upon the originality of any of them....

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. ...

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 has not cast away His people (_cf_. 1 Samuel 12:22; Psalms 94:14, etc.), the Israelite Paul is a living proof God's people, that is, whom He foreknew (_cf. Romans 8:29_ *, 1 Peter 1:2)....