ROMANS Chapter 11 -- GODS FUTURE PURPOSE FOR ISRAEL ISRAELS NATIONAL SETTING ASIDE NOT FINAL - Rom. 11:1-10 (Contd.) Let their eyes be darkened (dimmed) so that they cannot see, and make them bend their back [stooping beneath their burden] forever. [Ps. 69.23.] -- 11:10 ISRAELS REJECTION HAS A DIVINE PURPOSE -- Romans 11:11-24 So I ask, Have they stumbled so as to fall [to their utter spiritual ruin, irretrievably]? By no means! But through their false step and transgression salvation [has come] to the Gentiles, so as to arouse Israel [to see and feel what they forfeited] and so to make them jealous. -- 11:11 Now if their stumbling (their lapse, their transgression) has so enriched the world [at large], and if [Israels] failure means such riches for the Gentiles, think what an enrichment and greater advantage will follow their full reinstatement! -- 11:12 But now I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I lay great stress on my ministry and magnify my office. -- 11:13 In the hope of making my fellow Jews jealous [in order to stir them up to imitate, copy, and appropriate], and thus managing to save some of them. -- 11:14 For if their rejection and exclusion from the benefits of salvation were [overruled] for the reconciliation of a world to God, what will their acceptance and admission mean? [It will be nothing short of] life from the dead! -- 11:15 Now if the first handful of dough offered as the firstfruits [Abraham and the patriarchs] is consecrated (holy), so is the whole mass [the nation of Israel]; and if the root [Abraham] is consecrated (holy), so are the branches. [Num. 15:19-21.] -- 11:16 But if some of the branches were broken off, while you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them to share the richness [of the root and sap] of the olive tree, -- 11:17 Do not boast over the branches and pride yourself at their expense. If you do boast and feel superior, remember it is not you that support the root, but the root [that supports] you. -- 11:18
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