Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 11:18
Boast not against the branches — Do not they do this who despise the Jews? or deny their future conversion?
Boast not against the branches — Do not they do this who despise the Jews? or deny their future conversion?
Verse 18. _BOAST NOT AGAINST THE BRANCHES._] While you are ready to acknowledge that you were included in the covenant made with Abraham, and are now partakers of the same blessings with him, do not...
BOAST NOT ... - The tendency of people is to triumph over one that is fallen and rejected. The danger of pride and boasting on account of privileges is not less in the church than elsewhere. Paul saw...
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 Apost...
THE INGRAFTING OF THE GENTILES. From Romans 9:1 onwards, Paul has written as a Jew to Jews; here he turns to the other half of the Church (see Introd. § 3). ROMANS 11:13. But to you Gentiles I say. P...
THE CALLUS ON THE HEART (Romans 11:1-12)...
Now I speak to you Gentiles. You well know that in so far as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my office, for somehow I want to find a way to move my own flesh and blood to envy of the Genti...
BOAST. Greek. _katakauchaomai._ Only here, James 2:13; James 3:14....
_boast not against_, &c. i.e. against the branches that were broken off; as if in a better position than theirs might have been, and as if better in yourself, and so (as regards any virtue of your own...
E. Romans 9:1 to Romans 11:36. THE REJECTION OF THE GOSPEL BY ISRAEL The theme of Romans 1:16-17 has been worked out; it has been shown that the Gospel is a power of GOD unto salvation for them that b...
The relative positions of Jews and Gentiles, which have just been described in brief, are now elaborated, to show that they both Stand or fall on the same principle, of GOD’s grace and man’s faith; ba...
ΜῊ ΚΑΤΑΚΑΥΧΩ͂. ‘Do not triumph over’ (as you are in danger of doing (cf. Moulton, p. 125))....
ΚΑΤΑΚΑΥΧΏ _praes. imper. med. (dep.)_ 2 _pers. sing. от_ ΚΑΤΑΚΑΥΧΆΟΜΑΙ (G2620) хвалиться, превозносить себя над кем-л. Предложное сочетание указывает на действие, неблагоприятное по отношению к объек...
DISCOURSE: 1896 NEGLECT OF THE JEWS REPROVED Romans 11:17. If some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and...
BOAST NOT AGAINST THE BRANCHES— Though the great fault which most disordered the church, and principally exercised the Apostle'scare in this Epistle, was from the Jews pressing the necessity of legal...
_TEXT_ Romans 11:11-24. I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. Romans 11:12 Now if their fal...
Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. BOAST NOT AGAINST THE (REJECTED) BRANCHES. But if thou (do) boast (remember that), thou bearest n...
__ Justification-National 18 The proclamation of the gospel of the kingdom, beginning in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, spread to the limits of the land (Act_1:8), and reached beyond it to...
BOAST.. BOAST] RV 'glory.. gloriest.'...
ST. Paul now addresses the Gentiles. They should hope for the restoration of Israel, because of the blessing it will bring the world, and because Israel still bears God's name (Romans 11:13). They sho...
ISRAEL'S REJECTION NOT FINAL. A WARNING TO THE GENTILES In this chapter St. Paul brings to an end his great exposition of God's dealings with the Jews. He has shown in Romans 9 that God is free to cho...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 11 GOD’S PLAN FOR *ISRAEL’S FUTURE 11:1-32 THE RESULTS OF THE *JEWS’ FAILURE TO OBEY GOD 11:1-12 V1 So, I tell you th...
THOU BEAREST NOT THE ROOT. — There can be no boasting, for the privileges which the Gentiles possess are derived, and not original....
(17-24) The admission of the Gentile to the privileges of the Jew is no ground for boasting on his part. It is merely an _admission._ The Gentile is, as it were, a branch grafted into a stem that was...
(11-24) In this section the Apostle goes on to consider further the bearings of the rejection, and here, first (Romans 11:11), he considers the more hopeful side of it as regards the Jews themselves;...
CHAPTER 23 ISRAEL'S FALL OVERRULED, FOR THE WORLD'S BLESSING, AND FOR ISRAEL'S MERCY Romans 11:11 THE Apostle has been led a few steps backwards in the last previous verses. His face has been turned...
In these verses, which in a sense are a long parenthesis, Paul anticipates an objection which Gentile readers might take to his use of the last figure, the root and the branches; and he draws from it...
μὴ κατακαυχῶ τῶν κλάδων : for the genitive see Buttm., 185. Between “if thou boastest,” and “thou bearest not the root,” there is no formal connection: for such breviloquence, which requires us to sup...
OTHERS GRAFTED IN BY FAITH Romans 11:13 Paul never abandoned the hope that ultimately Israel would come back to God in Christ. He believed that God's promises pointed in that direction, and that, tho...
This discussion now gives rise to a new question, "Did God cast off His people?" They were created a nation in order that through them all the nations should be blessed. Failing to realize the divine...
(s) Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. (s) We may rejoice in the Lord, but in such a way that we do not despise the Jews, whom we ought r...
If it is so, Christians of Gentile origin have no cause to indulge pride as against the natural branches. The true translation would perhaps be: “ _Do not despise the branches._ But if, nevertheless,...
The apostle proves in this passage the perfect congruity, from the viewpoint of Israelitish antecedents, of the event which he has just announced as the consummation of Israel's history. Their future...
God has not then, absolutely speaking, rejected His people; but it is perfectly true that He has hardened and rejected a portion of them. Yet there are two restrictions to be noted here: This chastise...
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. (12) Now if the fall of them be th...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
18._But if thou gloriest, thou bearest not the root, etc. _The Gentiles could not contend with the Jews respecting the excellency of their race without contending with Abraham himself; which would hav...
Hereupon the question is immediately raised, has God then rejected His people? To this Chapter 11 is the answer. The apostle gives three proofs that it is by no means the case. Firstly, he is himself...
BOAST NOT AGAINST THE BRANCHES,.... Those that were broken off: the apostle would not have them vaunt it over them, despise them, and trample upon them; but pity them, and pray for and be abundantly t...
Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Ver. 18. _Boast not_] Gr. throw not up thy neck, in a scornful insulting way, but rather pity and pray...
_Boast not against the branches_ Attribute not thy being ingrafted into the good olive to thy own merits, as if thou wert worthy of the blessing. _But if thou boast_ To humble thy pride, consider, _th...
BOAST NOT AGAINST THE BRANCHES; the natural branches, the Jews. Do not exult over them, as if you were naturally better than they, and were in no danger. THE ROOT; the original church of God consisti...
A warning to the Gentile Christians:...
BOAST NOT AGAINST THE BRANCHES. BUT IF THOU BOAST, THOU BEAREST NOT THE ROOT, BUT THE ROOT THEE....
ISRAEL YET TO BE RESTORED We have seen in Romans 9:1 that there is an election according to the grace of God in Israel: in Romans 10:1 this is shown to be on the basis of faith in contrast to law: now...
I am talking to Gentiles - because I am the apostle to the Gentiles. I am filling my appointed office. 14 If I can provoke some Jews into returning to God and being saved (they are my kinsmen in the...
GLORY NOT OVER THE BRANCHES: BUT IF THOU GLORIEST, IT IS NOT THOU THAT BEAREST THE ROOT, BUT THE ROOT THEE. "GLORY NOT" -'do not be uplifted in pride over' (Bas); 'don't let yourself feel superior to...
11-21 The gospel is the greatest riches of every place where it is. As therefore the righteous rejection of the unbelieving Jews, was the occasion of so large a multitude of the Gentiles being reconc...
BOAST NOT AGAINST THE BRANCHES; i.e. against the Jews, who, because of their unbelief, are broken off; as if by nature thou wert better than they, or more worthy of that grace which is bestowed on the...
glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest [remember], _it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee_. ["Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall" (Proverbs...
Romans 11:18 not G3361 against G2620 (G5737) branches G2798 But G1161 if G1487 boast G2620 (G5736) you...
GOD'S PURPOSE WITH REGARD BOTH TO THE JEWS AND THE GENTILES (11:1-36). Paul now carries forward the doctrine of the Israel within Israel, and evidences it again from Scripture, making clear that those...
GOD HAS ESTABLISHED A TRUE ISRAEL BASED ON THE REMNANT WHO HAVE RESPONDED TO THE MESSIAH, WITH THE FALSE ISRAEL BEING AT LEAST TEMPORARILY CAST OFF, TO BE RESTORED IF THEY TURN TO THE MESSIAH AND REJO...
THE ILLUSTRATION OF THE OLIVE TREE (11:13-24). ‘The Olive Tree' is the name of Israel specifically given to it by God. In Jeremiah we are told “YHWH called your name ‘a green olive tree', fair, with g...
‘Do not glory over the branches. But if you do glory, it is not you who bears the root, but the root you.' The assumption here might be that Gentile Christians in Rome have been gloating over the situ...
2. _The Rejection of Israel is not Final._ In this section is presented the prospective solution of the great historical problem, discussed in this part of the Epistle. Here Paul becomes a prophet; r...
Romans 11:18. BOAST NOT AGAINST, or, ‘exult not over,' THE BRANCHES, _i.e.,_ the people of Israel, not the branches which had been broken off. In Romans 11:19 the latter are specifically indicated. Th...
GLORY NOT OVER THE BRANCHES (μη κατακαυχω των κλαδων). Genitive case after κατα. Present middle imperative second person singular of κατακαυχαομα with negative μη, "stop glorying" or "do not have t...
CONTENTS: A spiritual Israel finding salvation. National Israel blinded. Warning to Gentiles. Israel yet to be saved nationally. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Elijah, David, Abraham. CONCLUSION: The...
Romans 11:1. _Hath God cast away his people?_ The jews would say, what else can we infer? If the gentiles are now become the Israel of God, and if we are rejected for not embracing what Paul calls the...
YOU MUST NOT DESPISE. Paul tells the Gentile Christians that they must not despise those Jews who do not believe in Christ (those who were broken off). A farmer grafts cultivated branches on wild stoc...
_I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall?_ THE REJECTION OF ISRAEL I. How occasioned. 1. They stumbled at Christ. 2. Were rejected because of their unbelief. II. How overruled. 1. F...
_And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, wert grafted in._ THE OLIVE-TREE I. Why it is a symbol. 1. Of God’s faithful witnesses (Zechariah 4:5; Revelation 11:3...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 11:18 Gentile believers are warned against arrogance toward the Jews who were removed (v. Romans 11:17). It is God’s saving promises (the root
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 11:11 God’s saving righteousness is seen in the salvation of Israel at the end of history, and in his saving plan for both Jews and Gentiles. ⇐...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 11:15.—The apostle awaits a boundless effect of blessing on the world from the future conversion of the Jews, which will be as life from the dead. Romans 11:16.—FIRSTFRUIT de...
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 pr...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Romans, chapter 11. In Chapter s 9-11 Paul is dealing with a couple of subjects; one the sovereignty of God, but it is the sovereignty of God in setting aside the nation...
1 Corinthians 10:12; 1 Kings 20:11; Ephesians 2:19; Ephesians 2:20;...
The branches, Of the olive - tree generally, Jewish Christians and unbelieving Jews. Not those that are broken off, who are specially indicated in ver. 19....
MISSIONS IN THE EPISTLES Romans 10:11; _Romans 11:15_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS This study as a whole will give some idea of the missionary vision as set forth in Paul's Epistles. 1. THE SCOPE OF MISSIONA...