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A Revealed Secret
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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Albert Barnes
On Romans 11:25
18th Century
Theologian
Ignorant of this mystery. The word mystery means, properly, that which is concealed, hidden, or unknown. And it especially refers…
AT Robertson
On Romans 11:25
This mystery (το μυστηριον τουτο). Not in the pagan sense of an esoteric doctrine for the initiated (from μυεω, to blink, to wink)…
Charles Ellicott
On Romans 11:25
19th Century
Bishop
Mystery.—Throughout St. Paul’s writings, the word always means something that, though not knowable or fully comprehensible by unas…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Romans 11:25
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…
John Calvin
On Romans 11:25
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Romans 11:25
17th Century
Pastor
For I would not, brethren The apostle in order to raise the attention of the Gentiles to what he was about to deliver to …
Matthew Henry
On Romans 11:22–32
17th Century
Minister
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…