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For if the rejection of them [is] the reconciling of the world, what would the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
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God's Greater Purpose
Paul uses a "lesser to the greater" argument. If a negative event (Israel's national rejection of the Messiah) was used by God for an amazing outcome (the gospel spreading to the world), how much more glorious will the outcome be when Israel is finally "received" back through faith? Commentators see this as a powerful display of God's sovereignty to bring good from any situation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For if the casting away of them. This refers to their rejection as the peculiar people of God—their exclusion from their national privileg…
The casting away of them (η αποβολη αυτων). Objective genitive (αυτων) with αποβολη, old word from αποβαλλω, to throw off (), in N…
19th Century
Anglican
Reconciling of the world.—The gospel could not be preached to the Gentiles until it had first been offered to and rejected by the …
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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
For if their rejections, etc. This passage, which many consider obscure and some severely distort, should, in my view, be understood as an…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For if the casting away of them This argument, as before, in (Romans 11:12), is from the lesser to the g…
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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…
