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if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
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A Strategy of "Holy Jealousy"
Commentators explain that Paul's intense ministry to the Gentiles had a dual purpose. He hoped that by seeing non-Jews receive God's blessings, his own people—whom he calls "my flesh"—would be provoked to a kind of spiritual jealousy. This wasn't to create bitterness, but to awaken them to desire the same salvation in Christ and ultimately "save some of them."
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If by any means. If even by stating unpleasant truths, if by bringing out all the counsel of God—even that which threatens their destructi…
This paragraph follows naturally from the preceding, because Paul now applies to his own position and ministry the truth he has stated. He wants th…
16th Century
Protestant
And save, etc. Observe here that the minister of the word is said in some way to save those whom he leads to the obedience of faith.
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If by any means I may provoke to emulation What he had in view, even in discharging his office among the Gentiles wi…
The gospel is the greatest riches of every place where it is present. Therefore, as the righteous rejection of the unbelieving Jews was the occasio…
13th Century
Catholic
After showing that the fall of the Jews is not universal, the Apostle now begins to show that their fall was neither useless nor irrepara…
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