Romans 11:25

3. The full conversion of the Gentiles will result in the full Recovery of the Jews , Romans 11:25-32 .

25. Mystery A mystery of the divine counsel; a fact concealed until this time of revelation.

Conceits Puffed up with your superiority to the fallen Jew.

In part To a part of Israel.

Happened Taken place, but not in the sense of accident.

Fulness of the Gentiles We have little doubt that Paul’s mind half unconsciously here recurs to our Lord’s words in Luke 21:24: “Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the fulness of the Gentiles be gathered in.” (See our note on that passage.) By the word fulness we understand not necessarily absolutely all the Gentiles, but such a plenitude, foreseen by God, as will, as it were, drown out the infidelity of the Jews; and then the conversion of the Jews will reflow to drown out the unbelief of the Gentiles. Thereby a Christianity more or less pure and perfect may fill the earth.