If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
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Gill's Exposition
If by any means I may provoke to emulation,.... What he had in view, even in discharging his office among the Gentiles with so much labour, assiduity, and indefatigableness, was, that if possible he…
Barnes' Notes
If by any means - If even by stating unpleasant truths, if by bringing out all the counsel of God, even what threatens their destruction, I may arrest their attention, and save them. I may provoke to…
Adam Clarke
Might save some of them - And yet all these were among the reprobate, or rejected; however, the apostle supposed that none of them were irrecoverably shut out from the Divine favor; and that some of…
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
provoke to emulation Same word as that rendered "provoke to jealousy," Rom 11:11.
save some of them The phrase implies that he looked for conversions only one by one, through his own ministry.…
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