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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Romans 11:1 - 11:1
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Rom 11:1-36. Same subject continued and concluded - The ultimate inbringing of all Israel, to be, with the Gentiles, one kingdom of God on the earth.
I say then, Hath - “Did”
God cast away his people? God forbid - Our Lord did indeed announce that “the kingdom of God should be taken from Israel” (Mat 21:41); and when asked by the Eleven, after His resurrection, if He would at that time “restore the kingdom to Israel,” His reply is a virtual admission that Israel was in some sense already out of covenant (Act 1:9). Yet here the apostle teaches that, in two respects, Israel was not “cast away”; First, Not totally; Second, Not finally. First, Israel is not wholly cast away.
for I also am an Israelite - See Phi 3:5, and so a living witness to the contrary.
of the seed of Abraham - of pure descent from the father of the faithful.
of the tribe of Benjamin - (Phi 3:5), that tribe which, on the revolt of the ten tribes, constituted, with Judah, the one faithful kingdom of God (1Ki 12:21), and after the captivity was, along with Judah, the kernel of the Jewish nation (Ezr 4:1; Ezr 10:9).