Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Romans 11:32
For God hath concluded them (f) all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
(f) Both Jews and Gentiles.
For God hath concluded them (f) all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
(f) Both Jews and Gentiles.
ROMANS 11:32 tou.j pa,ntaj (1) {A} Instead of the first occurrence of tou.j pa,ntaj several witnesses (î46vid D* G Old Latin vg Ambrose) substitute ta. pa,nta (or pa,nta), a reading that seems to hav...
Verse 32. _FOR GOD HATH CONCLUDED THEM ALL IN UNBELIEF_] Συνεκλεισε γαρ ὁ Θεος, God hath _shut_ or _locked_ them all up under unbelief. This refers to the guilty state of both Jews and Gentiles. The...
FOR GOD HATH CONCLUDED ... - The word translated here “concluded” sunekleise, is rendered in the margin “shut them all up together.” It is properly used in reference to those who are shut up in prison...
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 MYSTERY OF ISRAEL'S FUTURE. Romans 11:25_ a_. It may save Gentile believers from a dangerous self-conceit (_cf. Romans 12:16_) to learn the secret that the hardening (see Romans 11:7) which has pa...
THE CALLUS ON THE HEART (Romans 11:1-12)...
Brothers, I do want you to grasp this secret which only those who know God can understand, because I do not want you to become conceited about your own wisdom. I want you to understand that it is only...
HATH CONCLUDED. shut up. Greek. _sunkleio,_ Elsewhere, Luke 5:6; Galatians 1:3; Galatians 1:22; Galatians 1:23. IN. Greek. eis
_For God_, &c. Lit. FOR GOD DID SHUT UP THE ALL TOGETHER INTO DISOBEDIENCE, THAT HE MAY COMPASSIONATE THE ALL. We give this literal version, though barbarous as English, to elucidate the exact referen...
ΣΥΝΈΚΛΕΙΣΕΝ ΓᾺΡ Κ.Τ.Λ. Cf. Romans 3:9; Romans 3:19; Romans 3:23; Galatians 3:22. ΤΟῪΣ ΠΆΝΤΑΣ. Jew and Gentile alike, regarded as classes: in b
The argument is summed up in a picture of the wide and patient purpose of GOD: the end is to bring both Jew and Gentile under His mercy: in the process both have sinned (cc. Romans 1:18-23) and experi...
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...
ΣΥΝΈΚΛΕΙΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΓΚΛΕΊΟΙ (G4788) запирать вместе, схватывать как в сеть (RWP). ΈΛΕΉΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΈΛΕΈΩ (G1653) миловать (_см._ Romans 11:30). _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443) выражает...
FOR GOD HATH CONCLUDED THEM ALL, &C.— _Them_ is not in the original, and should not be in the translation. _Concluded_ is no English word in this place; the sense of the Greek verb συνεκλεισε is, _he...
_TEXT_ Romans 11:25-32. For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fullness of the Ge...
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. FOR GOD HATH CONCLUDED THEM ALL IN UNBELIEF, [ sunekleisen (G4788) tous (G3588) pantas (G3956) eis ...
__ 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...
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...
CONCLUDED] RV 'shut up,' i.e. without power of escape: cp. Galatians 3:22. IN UNBELIEF] RV 'unto disobedience': cp. Romans 2:7. UPON ALL] i.e. who do not reject His mercy....
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...
Unhappy as the fate of the world might seem, first the Gentiles and then the Jews being consigned to a state of disobedience, this has really had a merciful object in the end. It will lead to a happy...
(25-32) There was a deep meaning underlying the temporary rejection of Israel, of which he has been speaking — a meaning which has hitherto been kept secret, but now to be revealed as a corrective to...
CHAPTER 24 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL DIRECTLY FORETOLD: ALL IS OF AND FOR GOD Romans 11:25 THUS far St. Paul has rather reasoned than predicted. He has shown his Gentile friends the naturalness, so...
There is the less need, too, that they should be withdrawn, because God makes the very misuse of them contribute to the working out of His universal purpose of redemption. The past unbelief of the Gen...
In this concluding section Paul abandons the ground of argument for that of revelation. He has discussed the problems arising out of the rejection of Israel and the calling of the Gentiles, when taken...
THAT GOD “MIGHT HAVE MERCY UPON ALL” Romans 11:25 “Mysteries” are the reasons and principles of the divine procedure which are hidden from ordinary minds, but revealed to the children of God by the S...
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...
[BIBLIOGRAPHY] Conclusit omnia. _Greek: pantas._...
“ _For God hath included all in disobedience, that He might have mercy upon all._ ” Here we have, as it were, the full period put to all that precedes the last word in explanation of the whole plan of...
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...
32._For God has shut up, etc. _A remarkable conclusion, by which he shows that there is no reason why they who have a hope of salvation should despair of others; for whatever they may now be, they hav...
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...
FOR GOD HATH CONCLUDED THEM ALL IN UNBELIEF,.... Both Jews and Gentiles, particularly God's elect among them: some think the metaphor is taken from the binding up of sheaves in bands; and that Jews an...
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. Ver. 32. _For God hath concluded_] Or locked them all up in the law's dark dungeon, αυνεκλεισε, Galatians 3:22. Unbelie...
_For as_ ye Believing Gentiles; _in times past_ Before Christ was preached to you; _have not believed God_ Did not believe in the living and true God: or rather, as the words ποτε ηπειθησατε τω θεω si...
HATH CONCLUDED; left shut up, as in a prison, without any hope of relief, from their own works. THEM ALL; the whole, both Jews and Gentiles. THAT HE MIGHT HAVE MERCY UPON ALL; and thus Jews and Gent...
God's mercy upon all:...
FOR GOD HATH CONCLUDED THEM ALL IN UNBELIEF THAT HE MIGHT HAVE MERCY UPON ALL. This statement is parallel to the previous one; it makes practically the same assertion regarding the great mass of the u...
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...
Once you, Gentiles, did not believe. Now you have mercy and salvation because of the unbelief of the Jews. 31 Now the Jews, who do not believe, are in need of mercy just like the gentiles once did. T...
CONCLUDED THEM ALL: Or, shut them all up together...
FOR GOD HATH SHUT UP ALL UNTO DISOBEDIENCE, THAT HE MIGHT HAVE MERCY UPON ALL. "SHUT UP" -4788. sugkleio soong-kli'-o; from 4862 and 2808; to shut together, i.e. include or (figuratively) embrace in....
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...
q.d. God hath, in just judgment, shut up both Jews and Gentiles, equally and successively, in unbelief, as in a prison, that so, in his own time, he might fulfil the counsel of his will, in showing un...
For God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all. [The verb "shut up" is, as Barnes observes, "properly used in reference to those who are shut up in prison, or to those i...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I t to the disobedience of men; and set forth why it is that one and the same God has made some things temporal and some eternal, some heavenly and others earthly; and u...
Romans 11:32 For G1063 God G2316 committed G4788 (G5656) all G3956 to G1519 disobedience G543 that G2443 mercy...
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...
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...
‘For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.' The section now ends with an emphasis on the primary theme, the salvation of all, both Jew and Gentile. For God's purpose in...
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...
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 11:32. FOR. This introduces another general principle of God's dealings. It serves to establish Romans 11:30-31, especially the latter, which is but a restatement of the entire discussion since...
HATH SHUT UP (συνεκλεισεν). First aorist active indicative of συνκλειω, to shut together like a net (Luke 5:6). See Galatians 3:22 for this word with υπο αμαρτιαν (under sin). This is a resultant (e...
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...
FOR GOD. "God has placed all men under the sentence of death for their disobedience, in order, that by admitting them into his covenant and church, he might make them aware that he gives a free gift t...
_For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy._ THE MEMORY OF THE PAST SHOULD 1. Promote humility. 2. Awaken gratitude. 3. Soften our censures. 4. Strengthen our hop...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 11:32 The word ALL here refers to Jews and Gentiles. God’s mercy is available to all, but not all will accept it. ⇐...
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. ⇐...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Romans 11:29_ The unchangeableness of God’s attitude towards men.—It is difficult to comprehend that, while change and decay are recognised everywhere in men and in...
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...
1 Timothy 2:4; Galatians 3:22; John 1:7; John 12:32; Romans 3:22;...
Concluded [σ υ ν ε κ λ ε ι σ ε ν]. Only here, Luke 5:6; Galatians 3:22; Galatians 3:23. A very literal rendering, etymologically considered; con together, claudere to shut. The A. V. followed the Vulg...
For God hath shut up all together in disobedience — Suffering each in their turn to revolt from him. First, God suffered the gentiles in the early age to revolt, and took the family of Abraham as a pe...
That is, "Almighty God hath in wisdom and righteousness suffered both Jews and Gentiles successively, for some time, to remain under the power of unbelief and disobedience, that so he might in his own...