_SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS_ ‘As it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear.’ Romans 11:8 The blindness that happened to Israel, and arrested their spiritual growth, may be happening no less to any of us. As God gave them t... [ Continue Reading ]
_CHRISTIANITY AND THE JEWS_ ‘Through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.’ Romans 11:11 Would that the Gentiles had borne more in heart this short sentence of St. Paul’s through these long centuries since the Apostles fell asleep! I. IT IS ONE OF THE M... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SALVATION OF THE JEWS_ ‘Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?’ Romans 11:12 Either these words of St. Paul in this eleventh chapter of Romans mean nothing or they mean what they say, that at so... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE DOWNFALL OF THE JEWS_ ‘Because of unbelief they were broken off.’ Romans 11:20 Look at the Jews as they are in the very midst of us at this moment. They are everybody’s open book of evidence; they, who can read no other, can read that. There they are. You meet them in the street; you are fam... [ Continue Reading ]
_STANDING BY FAITH_ ‘Thou standest by faith.’ Romans 11:20 All who ‘stand,’ ‘stand’ through mercy. There is no place where any one may ever judge or condemn a fallen brother. For if there is no ‘charity,’ there is no ‘faith’—for he who fell, fell from lack of ‘faith’; if you condemn another, you... [ Continue Reading ]
_GOD’S REVELATION TO MAN_ ‘Of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to Whom be glory for ever.’ Romans 11:36 We are in great danger of losing much of the comfort and strength which we are intended to find in the Holy Scriptures by studying them, if we study them at all, or thinking of... [ Continue Reading ]