If they continue not in their unbelief
(εαν μη επιμενωσ τη απιστια). Third class condition with the same verb used in verse Romans 11:22 of the Gentile. Locative case of απιστια here (same form as the instrumental in verse Romans 11:20).For God is able
(δυνατος γαρ εστιν ο θεος). See this use of δυνατος εστιν in Romans 4:21 rather than δυνατα. This is the χρυξ of the whole matter. God is able.
Verse 23. _IF THEY ABIDE NOT IN UNBELIEF_] So, we find that their rejection took place in consequence of their _wilful_ obstinacy: and, that they _may_ return into the fold, the door of which still st...
AND THEY ALSO - The Jews. IF THEY BIDE NOT ... - If they do not continue in willful obstinacy and rejection of the Messiah. As their unbelief was the sole cause of their rejection, so if that be remo...
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)...
ABIDE. continue, as above....
_graff them in again_ Every Jewish convert from the first age till now has been an example of this statement. St Paul is not yet dealing with the question of a conversion of Israel _en masse;_he has i...
As the Gentiles came to share in the hope of Israel, so fallen Israel may share the hope of the redeemed Gentile. He now explicitly declares his hope for Israel, hinted in Romans 11:12. ΔΥΝΑΤῸΣ ΓΆΡ Κ...
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...
ΈΠΙΜΈΝΩΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΙΜΈΝΩ (G1961) оставаться, ΈΓΚΕΝΤΡΙΣΘΉΣΟΝΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΈΓΚΕΝΤΡΊΖΩ (G1461) прививать (_см._ Romans 11:17). ΈΓΚΕΝΤΡΊΣΑΙ _aor. inf. act. Inf._ как дополнени...
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...
_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...
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. AND THEY ALSO ('YEA, AND THEY'), IF THEY ABIDE NOT STILL IN UNBELIEF, SHALL BE GRAFF...
__ 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...
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...
(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...
κἀκεῖνοι δέ : and they too, they on the other hand, _viz._, the un-believing Jews. ἐὰν μὴ κ. τ. λ., unless they remain on in their unbelief. It is assumed that they need not do this. The hardening spo...
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...
(12) And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. (12) Many are now for a season cut off, that is, are without the root, who in thei...
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...
“ _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....
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...
23._For God is able, etc_. Frigid would this argument be to the profane; for however they may concede power to God, yet as they view it at a distance, shut up as it were in heaven, they do for the mos...
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...
AND THEY ALSO, IF THEY ABIDE NOT STILL IN UNBELIEF,.... The apostle suggests that the Jews also might be recovered and brought into a Gospel church state, provided they did not continue in infidelity;...
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. Ver. 23. _God is able_] He can fetch heart of oak out of a hollow tree, and of carnal...
_Behold, therefore_ In this dispensation; _the goodness and severity of God_ Consider them maturely, and lay them deeply to heart: _on them which fell_ The unbelieving Jews, who took offence at the me...
AND THEY ALSO, IF THEY ABIDE NOT STILL IN UNBELIEF, SHALL BE GRAFTED IN; FOR GOD IS ABLE TO GRAFT THEM IN AGAIN....
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...
AND THEY ALSO, IF THEY CONTINUE NOT IN THEIR UNBELIEF, SHALL BE GRAFTED IN: FOR GOD IS ABLE TO GRAFT THEM IN AGAIN. "THEY ALSO" -i.e. unbelieving Jews. As long as people have life, they can be saved,...
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...
Here he adds another argument, to repress the arrogance and insulting of the Gentiles; and it is taken from the hope of the Jews restoration. Though for the present they seem to be in a desperate and...
And they [the unbelieving mass of Israel] _also_ [together with you], _if they continue not in their unbelief_ [for it is not a question of any comparative lack of legal merit on their part], _shall b...
Romans 11:23 And G1161 they G1565 also G2532 not G3362 continue G1961 (G5661) unbelief G570 in G1461 ...
‘And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.' And the inference is that if those Jews who have been cut off through unbelief...
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 11:23. AND THEY ALSO, _i.e.,_ the unbelieving Jews, who are like wild olive branches. The verse should not be joined too closely with Romans 11:22, since it presents a further thought. CONTINU...
ABIDE See (Jeremiah 3:21); (Jeremiah 3:50); (Jeremiah 3:4); (Jeremiah 3:5); ...
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...
AND THE JEWS. They can be part of the tree also. See note on Romans 11:11. The curse of _dullness_ in Romans 11:7-10 is not absolute, then, but vanishes when the Jew believes in Christ (2 Corinthians...
_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...
2 Corinthians 3:16; Matthew 23:39; Zechariah 12:10...
Able [δ υ ν α τ ο ς]. See on ch. Romans 4:21....
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...