Vincent's Word Studies in the NT

Romans 11:2

Foreknew. See on ch. Romans 8:29.

Or [η]. Compare ch. 6 3; Romans 7:1. Confirming what precedes by presenting the only alternative in the cave. Or is omitted in the A. V.

Wot ye not [ο υ κ ο ι δ α τ ε]. Why should the Revisers have retained the obsolete wot here, when they have rendered elsewhere, know ye not? See Romans 6:16; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 5:6; 1 Corinthians 6:2, etc. The phrase indicates that this cannot be thought of as true.

Of Elias [ε ν η λ ι α] Wrong; though Rev. has retained it : of Elijah, with in in margin; probably in order to avoid the awkward circumlocution in the passage treating of Elijah, or the ambiguous in Elijah. See on in the bush, Mark 12:26. Thucydides (1. 9) says : "Homer, in 'The handing down of the sceptre, ' said," etc.; i e., in the passage describing the transmission of the sceptre in the second book of the Iliad. A common form of quotation in the rabbinical writings. The passage cited is 1 Kings 19:10; 1 Kings 19:14. He maketh intercession [ε ν τ υ γ χ α ν ε ι]. See on ch. Romans 8:26. Rev., pleadeth.

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Romans 11:2

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