ROMANS—NOTE ON Romans 11:17 The people of God are portrayed here as an olive tree (see Jeremiah 11:16; Hosea 14:6). When Paul says some branches were removed, he probably has in mind the majority of the Jews of his day. Gentiles are the wild shoots grafted into the olive tree that now share in the root (the promises made to the patriarchs).

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