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For I don`t desire, brothers, to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won`t be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles have come in,
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Paul uses the word "mystery" not for something confusing, but for a part of God's plan that was previously hidden and is now being revealed. Commentators explain this isn't a secret for a select few, but a truth for all believers: God's plan includes a temporary, partial hardening of Israel to allow for the salvation of the Gentiles.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Ignorant of this mystery. The word mystery means, properly, that which is concealed, hidden, or unknown. And it especially refers…
This mystery (το μυστηριον τουτο). Not in the pagan sense of an esoteric doctrine for the initiated (from μυεω, to blink, to wink)…
19th Century
Anglican
Mystery.—Throughout St. Paul’s writings, the word always means something that, though not knowable or fully comprehensible by unas…
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Now Paul speaks of a “mystery” (GK 3696), lest his readers imagine that either he or they are capable of understanding the course of Israel’s histo…
16th Century
Protestant
I would not, etc. Here he rouses his audience to greater attention, as he declares that he is going to reveal something secret. Nor did he…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For I would not, brethren The apostle in order to raise the attention of the Gentiles to what he was about to deliver to …
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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
1. After leading the Gentiles to a knowledge of the divine judgments, in which God’s goodness and severity were manifested, the Apostle, act…
