Matthew Poole Commentary - Romans 11:17 - 11:17

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Romans 11:17 - 11:17


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In this, and some following verses, the apostle digresses a little, and takes occasion to prevent the insulting of the Gentiles over the Jews; as also to persuade them to take warning by their example.



If some of the branches be broken off; the unbelieving Jews.



And thou; a believing Gentile: though he speaks as to a particular person, yet he means the whole body of the believing Gentiles.



Being a wild olive tree; a scion taken from a wild olive tree; i.e. from the heathenish and unbelieving world.



Wert graffed in among them; the believing Jews. Some read, for them, or in the place of the branches that are broken off.



And with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree: by the root he means Abraham, &c. as before: by the olive tree he means the church of Christ; by the root, or sap of the root, and by the



fatness of the olive tree, he means, all the promises and privileges, the graces and ordinances, the spiritual blessings and benefits, which belonged to Abraham and his seed, or to the true church of God.