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- Chapter 11
- Verse 13
For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
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Gill's Exposition
For I speak to you Gentiles,.... The church at Rome, as the primitive churches for the most part did, consisted of Jews and Gentiles; hence the apostle sometimes addresses the one, as in Rom 2:17, and…
Barnes' Notes
For I speak to you Gentiles - What I am saying respecting the Jews, I say with reference to you who are Gentiles, to show you in what manner you have been admitted to the privileges of the people of…
Adam Clarke
This and the following verse should be read in a parenthesis. St. Paul, as the apostle of the Gentiles, wished to show them the high pitch of glory and blessedness to which they had been called, that…
The apostle proposes here a plausible objection, which might be urged against the divine conduct in casting off the Jewish nation (Rom 11:1): "Hath God cast away his people? Is the rejection total and…
Cambridge Bible
For Better, perhaps, But, or Now; by documentary evidence. The particle merely calls attention to the fresh and fuller statement.
I speak to you Immediately. He implies a hope to reach the Jews…
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