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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Romans 11:10

Romans 11:10. Let their eyes be darkened, etc. The reference is not to old age, but to some more sudden blinding. This verse explains the ‘recompense' of Romans 11:9. Spiritual blindness is one form of the punishment

Their back do thou bow down alway. The Hebrew means: ‘make their loins to waver,' but the LXX., here followed closely, presents the same thought under another figure. Present loss of strength is meant, representing spiritual servitude, under the yoke of legalism, rather than that of Roman conquerors.

Meyer thinks the retribution is for want of faith in Christ; Godet, with more reason, says: ‘the rejection of Jesus by the Jews was the effect, not the cause of the hardening. The cause Paul has said clearly enough (chap. Romans 9:31-33) was the obstinacy of their own righteousness.'

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See also Romans 11:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Romans 11:10. _LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED_] All these words are _declarative_, and not _imprecatory_. God _declares_ what will be the case of such obstinate unbelievers; their _table_, their co...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND DAVID SAITH ... - This quotation is made from Psalms 69:22. This Psalm is repeatedly quoted as having reference to the events recorded in the New Testament. (See the note at Acts 1:2.) This quotat...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ELECT REMNANT. Paul comes to the third part of his proof that God's word to Israel has not fallen through, despite the national rejection of Jesus Christ. ROMANS 11:1; ROMANS 11:2_ A._ That God h...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    So then, I ask, "Has God repudiated his people?" God forbid! I, too, am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not repudiated his people whom long ago he mar...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE CALLUS ON THE HEART (Romans 11:1-12)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BE DARKENED. See Romans 1:21. BOW DOWN. Greek. _sunkampto._ Only here. BACK. Greek. _notos._ Only here. Quoted from Psalms 69:23. Compare Deuteronomy 28:43....

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    The failure of Israel does not even now constitute a rejection by GOD. As in former times of apostasy there is a faithful remnant in whom the faithfulness and graciousness of GOD is still seen. And in...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    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...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΣΚΟΤΙΣΘΉΤΩΣΑΝ _aor. imper. pass._ от ΣΚΟΤΊΖΩ (G4654) затемнять. Inch, _aor._, "омрачились". ΒΛΈΠΕΙΝ _praes. inf. act. от_ ΒΛΈΠΩ (G991) видеть. _Inf._ результата. Их глаза омрачены, поэтому они не вид...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    ACCORDING AS IT IS WRITTEN— We need not suppose that the Apostle quotes these passages of Scripture as if they predicted the blindness and obduracy of the Jews in his time. It is sufficient for his pu...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _TEXT_ Romans 11:1-10. I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. Romans 11:2 God did not cast off his people wh...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway. LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED, THAT THEY MAY NOT SEE, AND BOW DOWN THEIR BACK ALWAY - `and ever bow thou down their ba...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    __ 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BOW DOWN THEIR BACK] i.e. in weakness and dejection....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED. — In the Apostle’s sense, “Let them be spiritually blinded, incapable of discerning or receiving the truth, and let their backs be bowed with the yoke of spiritual thraldom...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 22 ISRAEL, HOWEVER, NOT FORSAKEN Romans 11:1 "A PEOPLE disobeying and contradicting." So the Lord of Israel, through the Prophet, had described the nation. Let us remember as we pass on what...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    λέγω οὖν : the οὖν intimates that it is with the conclusion reached in chap. 10 before his mind that Paul puts the following question: the unbelief of Israel naturally suggested it. μὴ ἀπώσατο ὁ θεὸς...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A REMNANT SAVED BY GRACE Romans 11:1 In the worst days of Hebrew apostasy there was always an elect handful that did not go astray after other gods. It was so in the days of Elijah; and it was a comf...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    “ _And David saith, Let their table be made a snare and a trap and a stumbling-block, and [so] a just recompense unto them! Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see; and bow down their back a...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    The _partial_ character of the rejection of God's people is proved, first by the conversion of St. Paul himself (Romans 11:1); then by the existence of a whole Judeo-Christian church (Romans 11:2-6)....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. (2) God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED, THAT THEY MAY NOT SEE,.... Which is to be understood not literally of their being struck with blindness, as the men of Sodom were by the angels, and as Elymas the sorcerer...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway. Ver. 10. _Bow down_] _i.e._ Bring them down into bondage and misery. Compare Leviticus 26:13 ....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _What then_ What is the conclusion from the whole? It is this, that _Israel_, in general, _hath not obtained that which he seeketh_ Namely, justification, acceptance with God, and the blessings conseq...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    BOW DOWN THEIR BACK ALWAY; the same as "make their loins continually to shake," namely, with terror and anguish. Psalms 69:23....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED THAT THEY MAY NOT SEE, AND BOW DOWN THEIR BACK ALWAY. Only the election, those that were elected according to God's gracious decree, obtained salvation in Christ. But the re...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The result of refusing God's way of salvation:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    David said (Psalms 69:22) Let their table be a Snare a net Trap the jaws Stumbling block the bait Recompense the pain 10 Psalms 69:23 (continued) Eyes darkened Bow backs always...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED, THAT THEY MAY NOT SEE, AND BOW THOU DOWN THEIR BACK ALWAYS. "DAVID SAITH". Psalms 69:22"Their table" was put for their religious food. Instead of being lead to Christ by th...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 There was a chosen remnant of believing Jews, who had righteousness and life by faith in Jesus Christ. These were kept according to the election of grace. If then this election was of grace, it...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "ROMANS 11:9...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their back always. [This verse is usually construed to picture the political servitude and spiritual bondage of Israel after the fa...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Romans 11:10 Let G4654 their G846 eyes G3788 darkened G4654 (G5682) do G991 not G3361 see G991 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    And David says, “Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompense to them, let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow you down their back always.” Th...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S PURPOSE FOR ISRAEL IS BEING FULFILLED THROUGH A REMNANT (11:1-10). Paul now deals with the question as to whether Israel has been ‘cast off'. And his reply is ‘certainly not', and this reply is...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED (σκοτισθητωσαν ο οφθαλμο αυτων). First aorist passive imperative of σκοτιζω, to darken. A terrible imprecation.THAT THEY MAY NOT SEE (του μη βλεπειν). Repeated from ver...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    AND DAVID SAYS. The quotation is Psalms 69:22-23 in the Septuagint. This does not mean the Jews are more sinful than the Gentiles. The Jew loved the Law of God, but the Law misunderstood, destroyed hi...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And if by grace, then is it no more of works; otherwise grace is no more grace._ THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF DIVINE GRACE I. Man is the object of grace. 1. The present dispensation is only the perfec...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _God hath not cast away His people._ GOD HATH NOT CAST OFF HIS PEOPLE This is proved by-- I. The known facts of their history--Paul and his companions in the faith. II. The secret operations of th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 11:7 Paul links Isaiah 29:10 and Deuteronomy 29:4 to clarify that God has...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 11:6.—εἰ δὲ χάριτι, by grace, thus not of works. Salvation must be either by one or the other. Romans 11:7. THE ELECTION.—The faithful remnant which has profited by the free g...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Peter 2:17; 2 Peter 2:4; Deuteronomy 28:64; Ephesians 4:18;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Bow down [σ υ γ κ α μ ψ ο ν]. Lit., bend together. Hebrew, shake the loins....

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