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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Romans 11:31 - 11:31
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Even so have these - the Jews.
now not believed - or, “now been disobedient”
that through your mercy - the mercy shown to you.
they also may obtain mercy - Here is an entirely new idea. The apostle has hitherto dwelt upon the unbelief of the Jews as making way for the faith of the Gentiles - the exclusion of the one occasioning the reception of the other; a truth yielding to generous, believing Gentiles but mingled satisfaction. Now, opening a more cheering prospect, he speaks of the mercy shown to the Gentiles as a means of Israel’s recovery; which seems to mean that it will be by the instrumentality of believing Gentiles that Israel as a nation is at length to “look on Him whom they have pierced and mourn for Him,” and so to “obtain mercy.” (See 2Co 3:15, 2Co 3:16).