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For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For if you. If you who are Gentiles.
Were cut out of. Or, if you were of the cutting of the wild olive tree.
Wh…
Contrary to nature (παρα φυσιν). This is the gist of the argument, the power of God to do what is contrary to natural processes. H…
Paul now expands the figures of root and branches by setting forth the allegory of the olive tree. Actually, there are two trees, the cultivated ol…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For if you were cut out of the olive tree As the apostle argues the possibility of bringing the Jews into a Gospel church stat…
Of all judgments, spiritual judgments are the most severe; of these the apostle is here speaking. The restoration of the Jews is, in the natural or…
13th Century
Catholic
After showing that the fall of the Jews was both useful and reversible, the Apostle now forbids the Gentiles to boast against the Jews.
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