11: 2 God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture 154saith 155of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel:
1541Ki 19:10.
155Or, in
11: 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my soul.
11: 4 But what 156saith the answer of God unto him? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
1561Ki 19:18.
11: 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
11: 6 But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace comes to be no more grace.
11: 7 What then? That which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:
11: 8 according as it is written, 157God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day.
157Is 29:10; Dt 29:4.
11: 9 And David saith, 158Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:
158Ps 69:22f.
11: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their back always.
11: 11 I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? Be it not so: but by their 159fall salvation cometh unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
159Or, trespass Compare ch. 5:15ff.
11: 12 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
11: 13 But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
11: 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy them that are my flesh, and may save some of them.
11: 15 For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
11: 16 And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
11: 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them 160of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;
160So ℵ*BC 1506 (copsa,bo). A 1739 33 81 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., arm vg read of the root and of the fatness p46 reads of the fatness
11: 18 glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.
11: 19 Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
11: 20 Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:
11: 21 for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee.
11: 22 Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God’s goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
11: 23 And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
11: 24 For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more shall these which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
11: 25 For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening 161in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in;
161Or, hath befallen part of Israel,
11: 26 and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written, 162There shall have come out of Zion the Deliverer; He shall turn away 163ungodliness from Jacob:
162Is 59:20f.
163Gk. ungodlinesses
11: 27 164And this is 165my covenant unto them, When I would take away their sins.
164Is 27:9.
165Gk. the covenant from me
11: 28 As touching the 166gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.
166See ch. 10:15, 16, and marginal note on ch. 1:1.
11: 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of.
11: 30 For as ye in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
11: 31 even so have these also now been disobedient, that by 167your mercy they168 also may obtain mercy.
167Or possibly, the mercy shown to you
168So p46 A 1739 81 arm vg. But ℵB 1506 copbo almost alone add now 33 256 copsa add in need
11: 32 For God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.
11: 33 O the depth 169of the riches 170both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his condemnations, and his ways past tracing out!
169Or, of the riches and the wisdom etc.
170Or, both of wisdom etc.
11: 34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath become his counsellor?
11: 35 or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
11: 36 For of him, and through him, and unto him, are all things. To him be the glory 171for ever. Amen.
171Gk. unto the ages.
