Romans 11:23

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 11:17-24

(17-24) The admission of the Gentile to the privileges of the Jew is no ground for boasting on his part. It is merely an admission. The Gentile is, as it were, a branch grafted into a stem that was none of his planting. Nor is his position absolutely secured to him. It is held conditionally on the tenure of faith. He ought, therefore, anxiously to guard against any failure in faith. For the moment God has turned towards him the gracious side of His providence, as towards the Jew He has turned... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Romans 11:1-36

The Doctrine of Election Romans 11:5 The argument of the three chapters of the Epistle to the Romans, the reading of which we conclude this morning, is one of the most difficult of the Bible. It suggests problems concerning the moral government of God which perplex, if they do not appal, the mind which entertains them. I. Now it was one of those deep problems that confronted the mind of St Paul when he had surrendered to the victorious Christ and had been received into the fellowship of His... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Romans 11:11-24

Chapter 23ISRAEL’S FALL OVERRULED, FOR THE WORLD’S BLESSING, AND FOR ISRAEL’S MERCYRomans 11:11-24THE Apostle has been led a few steps backwards in the last previous verses. His face has been turned once more toward the dark region of the prophetic sky, to see how the sin of Christ-rejecting souls is met and punished by the dreadful "gift" of slumber, and apathy, and the transmutation of blessings to snares. But now, decisively, he looks sunward. He points our eyes, with his own, to the morning... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Romans 11:1-36

Israel’s Restoration. CHAPTER 11 (“The Jewish Question”, by A. C. G., gives a complete exposition of this great chapter.) 1. God Hath not Cast Away His People. (Romans 11:1 .) 2. Israel’s Apostasy not Complete; a Remnant Saved. (Romans 11:2-6 .) 3. Israel’s Blindness for a Season. (Romans 11:7-10 .) 4. To Provoke Them to Jealousy. (Romans 11:11 .) 5. Their Fulness and Reception Life from the Dead. (Romans 11:12-15 .) 6. The Parable of the Two Olive Trees. (Romans 11:16-24 .) 7. A... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Romans 11:23

11:23 {12} And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.(12) Many are now for a season cut off, that is, are without the root, who in their time will be grafted in: and again there are a great number who after a certain manner, and with regard to the outward show seem to be ingrafted, who nonetheless through their own fault afterwards are cut off, and completely cast away: which thing is especially to be considered in nations... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 11:1-36

Israel Yet to be Restored We have seen in Romans 9:1-33 that there is an election according to the grace of God in Israel: in Romans 10:1-21 this is shown to be on the basis of faith in contrast to law: now inRomans 11:1-36; Romans 11:1-36 this masterly treatise concludes with the consideration of how Israel will eventually enter into their promised portion. This is plainly by a mostly humbling process but it is nonetheless certain. Was this not always in the mind of God? Could we allow the... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Romans 11:1-36

PARENTHESIS CONCERNING ISRAEL These chapters carry us back to chapter 3, where Paul proved the lost condition of the Jew as well as the Gentiles. But if this were so it might be charged that the Old Testament promises to Israel had failed, which he now shows is not the case. This line of argument is threefold: first, some of Israel were already saved (chap. 9); secondly, all of Israel might be saved but for unbelief (chap. 10); thirdly, all of Israel would be saved ultimately (chap. 11).... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Romans 11:11-36

I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. (12) Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? (13) For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: (14) If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Romans 11:22-32

22-32 Of all judgments, spiritual judgments are the sorest; of these the apostle is here speaking. The restoration of the Jews is, in the course of things, far less improbable than the call of the Gentiles to be the children of Abraham; and though others now possess these privileges, it will not hinder their being admitted again. By rejecting the gospel, and by their indignation at its being preached to the Gentiles, the Jews were become enemies to God; yet they are still to be favoured for the... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Romans 11:1-99

Romans 11 THOUGH ISRAEL, as a nation, has been set aside for a time, they have not been cast away for ever. Some Gentiles in the conceit of their hearts thought so when Paul was writing, and not a few think so today. But God forbid that it should be so, for they are His people foreknown for a special object, and in that event His object would be defeated. The Apostle immediately cites his own case as proof. Mercy had been shown to him and he was an Israelite, a sample of that remnant which... read more

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