Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Romans 11:31

Romans 11:31. So also; the cases are parallel.

Have these (Jews) now, since the gospel of Christ was preached, been disobedient; lit., ‘were disobedient,' as in Romans 11:30, but ‘now' compels us to render ‘have been disobedient.'

That, in order that, by the mercy shown to you (lit. ‘your mercy;' in emphatic position in the original) they also may now obtain mercy. The leading thought of the section (Romans 11:11) is here repeated, in the final summing up. This view is so natural and accords so entirely with the parallelism as to forbid the explanations of the Vulgate, Luther, and others; ‘they have not believed in the mercy shown to you,' or, ‘were disobedient through the mercy shown to you.'

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Romans 11:31

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