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- Romans
- Chapter 11
- Verse 15
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
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Gill's Exposition
For if the casting away of them,.... This argument, as before, in Rom 11:12, is from the lesser to the greater, showing that as the Gentiles received present advantage through the rejection of the…
Barnes' Notes
For if the casting away of them - If their rejection as the special people of God - their exclusion from their national privileges, on account of their unbelief. It is the same as “the fall of them;”…
Adam Clarke
But life from the dead - If the rejection of the Jews became the occasion of our receiving the Gospel, so that we can even glory in our tribulations, though they themselves became chief instruments 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
the casting away Not the cognate word to that in Rom 11:1-2. But there is no practical difference in the words: it is the referencethat differs here. There he denies that Jews as suchwere thrust out…
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