Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 11:29
For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance — God does not repent of his gifts to the Jews, or his calling of the gentiles.
For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance — God does not repent of his gifts to the Jews, or his calling of the gentiles.
Verse 29. _FOR THE GIFTS AND CALLING OF GOD_, c.] The _gifts_ which God has bestowed upon them, and _the calling_-the invitation, with which he has favoured them he will never revoke. In reference to...
FOR THE GIFTS - The favors or benefits which God bestows on men. The word χάρισμα charisma properly denotes any benefit which is conferred on another as a mere matter of favor, and not of reward; see...
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 MYSTERY OF ISRAEL'S FUTURE. Romans 11:25_ a_. It may save Gentile believers from a dangerous self-conceit (_cf. Romans 12:16_) to learn the secret that the hardening (see Romans 11:7) which has pa...
Brothers, I do want you to grasp this secret which only those who know God can understand, because I do not want you to become conceited about your own wisdom. I want you to understand that it is only...
THE CALLUS ON THE HEART (Romans 11:1-12)...
GIFTS. App-184. WITHOUT REPENTANCE. not to be repented of. App-111....
_gifts_ Gr. _charismata_; GIFTS OF GRACE. The word is frequently used of "_miraculous_" gifts (see on Romans 1:11); but here, obviously, it refers to all the "innumerable benefits" of Divine Salvation...
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...
The argument is summed up in a picture of the wide and patient purpose of GOD: the end is to bring both Jew and Gentile under His mercy: in the process both have sinned (cc. Romans 1:18-23) and experi...
ἈΜΕΤΑΜΈΛΗΤΑ ΓᾺΡ Κ.Τ.Λ. ἈΜΕΤΑΜ., 2 Corinthians 7:10 only. ΤᾺ ΧΑΡΊΣΜΑΤΑ, only here of GOD’s gifts outside the Gospel dispensation; its use for the privileges of the Jew (Romans 9:4-6) is a remarkable in...
ΆΜΕΤΑΜΈΛΗΟΣ (G278) непреложный, о чем не придется сожалеть потом, не придется раскаиваться (BAGD). ΧΆΡΙΣΜΑ (G5486) дар благодати. Бог не отступается от Своих даров благодати (Barrett; _см._ Romans 5:...
DISCOURSE: 1900 THE JEWS STILL BELOVED OF GOD, FOR THEIR FATHERS’ SAKE Romans 11:28. _As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the...
FOR THE GIFTS AND CALLING OF GOD, &C.— "For the favours which God shewed to those their fathers in calling them and their posterity to be his people, he does not repent of; but his promise, that they...
_TEXT_ Romans 11:25-32. For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fullness of the Ge...
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. FOR THE GIFTS AND CALLING ('FOR THE GIFTS AND THE CALLING') OF GOD ARE WITHOUT REPENTANCE, [ ametameleeta (G278)] - 'are not to be,' or 'can...
__ 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...
11:29 repentance. (c-13) i.e. 'irrevocable.' The Greek only occurs here and 2 Corinthians 7:10 , 'never to be regretted.'...
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...
CALLING] cp. Romans 1:6.; Romans 8:30. WITHOUT REPENTANCE] i.e. God's promises are changeless, because He could never do that for which afterwards He was sorry. He is sometimes said, in OT., to 'repen...
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...
WITHOUT REPENTANCE. — Not to be revoked or withdrawn, not even to he regretted....
(25-32) There was a deep meaning underlying the temporary rejection of Israel, of which he has been speaking — a meaning which has hitherto been kept secret, but now to be revealed as a corrective to...
CHAPTER 24 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL DIRECTLY FORETOLD: ALL IS OF AND FOR GOD Romans 11:25 THUS far St. Paul has rather reasoned than predicted. He has shown his Gentile friends the naturalness, so...
Proof that the Israelites, in virtue of their relation to the fathers, are objects of God's love. ἀμεταμέλητα _cf._ 2 Corinthians 7:10 : it may mean either what is not or what cannot be repented of: h...
In this concluding section Paul abandons the ground of argument for that of revelation. He has discussed the problems arising out of the rejection of Israel and the calling of the Gentiles, when taken...
THAT GOD “MIGHT HAVE MERCY UPON ALL” Romans 11:25 “Mysteries” are the reasons and principles of the divine procedure which are hidden from ordinary minds, but revealed to the children of God by the S...
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...
(15) For the gifts and calling of God [are] without repentance. (15) The reason or proof: because the covenant made with that nation of everlasting life cannot be frustrated or in vain....
“ _As touching the gospel, they are, it is true, enemies for your sakes; but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake; for the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable._ ” To s...
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...
29._The gifts and calling of God are without repentance. _He has mentioned gifts and calling; which are to be understood, according to a figure in grammar, (369) as meaning the gift of calling: and th...
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 THE GIFTS AND CALLING OF GOD,.... By "gifts" are meant, not the gifts of nature and providence, as life, health, strength, riches, and honour, which God sometimes gives, and repents of, and takes...
For the gifts and calling of God _are_ without repentance. Ver. 29. _Are without repentance_] When God is said to repent, it is _Mutatio rei non Dei, effectus non affectus, facti non consilii, _ a ch...
_As concerning the gospel_ That is, in reference to the gospel; _they are enemies for your sakes_ They reject it with the greater hatred, because you embrace it, or rather, (for they generally rejecte...
GIFTS AND CALLING OF GOD; his choosing them as his people, and his promises to give them spiritual blessings. ARE WITHOUT REPENTANCE; will not be revoked. God will not change his determination, or fa...
God's mercy upon all:...
FOR THE GIFTS AND CALLING OF GOD ARE WITHOUT REPENTANCE....
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...
This is God's covenant (contract, agreement, will promise) -- God will take away their sins. 28 The gospel (good news about Jesus) and the Jew became enemies. The election of Jews makes them your fr...
FOR THE GIFTS AND THE CALLING OF GOD ARE NOT REPENTED OF. "FOR" -may explain how unbelieving Jews can still be labeled as 'beloved'. God still holds the door open to their being saved. He promised the...
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...
These words, considered simply and abstractedly, afford this truth; That the special gifts of God, his election, justification, adoption, and in particular effectual calling, are irrevocable. God neve...
For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of. [A corollary growing out of the axiom that the all-wise God makes no mistakes and consequently knows no repentance (Numbers 23:19; Ezekiel 24:...
Romans 11:29 For G1063 gifts G5486 and G2532 calling G2821 God G2316 irrevocable G278 Numbe
‘As touching the gospel, enemies for your sake, but as touching the election, beloved for the fathers' sake. For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of.' As has already been noted this...
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...
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...
Romans 11:29. FOR THE GIFTS AND THE CALLING OF GOD ARE WITHOUT REPENTANCE; not subject to recall. The adjective rendered ‘without repentance' occurs elsewhere in the New Testament, only in 2 Corinthia...
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...
WITHOUT REPENTANCE (αμεταμελητα). See on 2 Corinthians 7:10 for this word (α privative and μεταμελομα, to be sorry afterwards). It is not αμετανοητον (Romans 2:5) from α privative and μετανοεω, to c...
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...
FOR GOD DOES NOT CHANGE HIS MIND. See Galatians 3:14-18....
_As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes._ ENEMIES MAY BE UNCONSCIOUS HELPERS During the siege of Sebastopol a Russian shell buried itself in the side of a hill without the city, an...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 11:29 Israel will be saved because God always keeps his promises. As used here, GIFTS means the unique blessings given to Israel which Paul mentioned at the beginning of this lon...
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. ⇐...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Romans 11:29_ The unchangeableness of God’s attitude towards men.—It is difficult to comprehend that, while change and decay are recognised everywhere in men and in...
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...
Hosea 13:14; Malachi 3:6; Numbers 23:19...
Without repentance [α μ ε τ α μ ε λ η τ α]. Only here and 2 Corinthians 7:10. See on repented, Matthew 21:29. Not subject to recall....