Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 11:24
Contrary to nature — For according to nature, we graft the fruitful branch into the wild stock; but here the wild branch is grafted into the fruitful stock.
Contrary to nature — For according to nature, we graft the fruitful branch into the wild stock; but here the wild branch is grafted into the fruitful stock.
Verse 24. _THE OLIVE TREE, WHICH IS WILD BY NATURE_] Which is κατα φυσιν, _naturally_, wild and barren; for that the _wild olive_ bore no fruit is sufficiently evident from the testimony of the autho...
FOR IF THOU - If you who are Gentiles. WERT CUT OUT OF - Or, if thou wert of the cutting of the wild olive-tree. WHICH IS WILD BY NATURE - Which is uncultivated and unfruitful. That is, if you were i...
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...
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...
THE CALLUS ON THE HEART (Romans 11:1-12)...
IF. App-118. OUT OF. App-104. OLIVE TREE, &C. Read "wild olive tree which is so by (App-104.) nature". CONTRARY TO. App-104. GOOD OLIVE TREE. Greek. _kallielaioa._ Only here. It is only in the kin...
_For if thou_, &c. Cp. on this verse notes on Romans 11:17. _how much more_ i.e. "how much more _easily to our conception_." _As a fact_, the Gentile had been grafted in, and no _more_than this could...
ἘΚ ΤΗ͂Σ ΚΑΤᾺ Φ. ἈΓΡ. From the wild olive to which you naturally belonged. So ΠΑΡᾺ ΦΎΣΙΝ contrary to your natural origin, ΟἹ ΚΑΤᾺ ΦΎΣΙΝ those who naturally belong to it....
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...
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...
ΈΞΕΚΌΠΗΣ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΈΚΚΌΠΤΩ (G1581) отрезать (_см._ Romans 11:22). ΚΑΛΛΙΈΛΑΙΟΣ (G2565) садовая маслина как противопоставление дикорастущей (BAGD). ΠΌΣΩ ΜΆΛΛΟΝ (G4214; G3123) насколько боль...
DISCOURSE: 1898 THE DISPENSATIONS OF GOD TOWARDS JEWS AND GENTILES Romans 11:22. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou con...
THE OLIVE-TREE, WHICH IS WILD BY NATURE—WHICH BE THE NATURAL BRANCHES— The original in both these places is κατα φυσιν, and therefore our translators should either have rendered it in the first clause...
_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...
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed in...
__ Conciliation-National 22 Nothing shows the blindness of Christendom more than their severe denunciation of faithless Israel, yet they are following precisely the same course and have not the slig...
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...
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...
HOW MUCH MORE] We may see indications of the purpose of God for the Jews in the permanence of their race and in their devoted adherence to the God of their fathers. 25-36. That Israel will be converte...
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...
(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...
God's power to engraft the Jews again into the stock of His people proved a _fortiori_ by comparison with what He has done for the Gentiles. To restore His own is more natural, conceivable, and one ma...
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...
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...
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by (z) nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a (a) good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural [branches], be g...
There is, in fact, between the Jewish nation and the kingdom of God an essential affinity, a sort of pre-established harmony, so that when the hour has come, their restoration will be accomplished sti...
“ _And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted...
derive for believers of Gentile origin the practical application of all they have been reminded of in Romans 11:17-21....
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...
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...
FOR IF THOU WERT CUT OUT OF THE OLIVE TREE,.... As the apostle argues the possibility of bringing the Jews into a Gospel church state, from the power of God; so here the probability of it, or the easi...
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural _branches_, be graffed i...
_For_, &c. As if he had said, And it appears that he will do it, because he has done that which was more unlikely, as being contrary to nature: _if thou wert cut out of the tree wild by nature_, &c. I...
FOR IF THOU WERT CUT OUT OF THE OLIVE-TREE WHICH IS WILD BY NATURE, AND WERT GRAFTED CONTRARY TO NATURE INTO A GOOD OLIVE-TREE, HOW MUCH MORE SHALL THESE, WHICH BE THE NATURAL BRANCHES, BE GRAFTED INT...
A warning to the Gentile Christians:...
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...
What about the Jews? Is ther hope for them? YES! If they do not remain in unbelief, they can be grafted back into the tree. God can do that. 24 All of this illustration is contrary to nature. In natu...
FOR IF THOU WAST CUT OUT OF THAT WHICH IS BY NATURE. WILD OLIVE TREE, AND WAST GRAFTED CONTRARY TO NATURE INTO. GOOD OLIVE TREE; HOW MUCH MORE SHALL THESE, WHICH ARE THE NATURAL BRANCHES, BE GRAFTED I...
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 Ge...
He here shows the probability, as well as possibility, of the Jews conversion, because God hath done that which is more unlikely: q.d. If the Gentiles, which were a kind of wild olive branches, were g...
For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted...
Romans 11:24 For G1063 if G1487 you G4771 cut G1581 (G5648) of G1537 wild G65 by G2596 nature...
‘For if you were cut out of what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into t...
THE GENTILE CHRISTIANS ARE TO RECOGNISE BOTH THE GOODNESS AND SEVERITY OF GOD (11:22-32). So the Gentile Christians are to recognise both the goodness and the severity of God. Towards the unbelieving...
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...
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...
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...
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 11:24. FOR introduces the entire verse as a proof of the probability that the Jews will ultimately be grafted in again, not of the statement that God is able to graft them in (against Godet). I...
CONTRARY TO NATURE (παρα φυσιν). This is the gist of the argument, the power of God to do what is contrary to natural processes. He put the wild olive (Gentile) into the good olive tree (the spirit...
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 GENTILES. If God saves the Gentile, this is proof he will also save the Jew! If the Gentile can be joined to the free of Abraham by faith, how much easier will it be to re-join the Jew who believe...
_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 11:22 The Gentile readers must contemplate both God’s KINDNESS and his SEVERITY toward them and the Jews who have not believed. They must continue in faith. Otherwise, they too w...
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 11:25.—πλήρωμα is a word specially applied to ships. The full complement of the Gentile world shall enter the sacred vessel of the Church, the ark of salvation. _MAIN HOMILET...
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...
Romans 11:17; Romans 11:18; Romans 11:30...
Contrary to nature. See remarks on ver. 17....
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...