For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
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Gill's Exposition
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree,.... As the apostle argues the possibility of bringing the Jews into a Gospel church state, from the power of God; so here the probability of it, or the…
Barnes' Notes
For if thou - If you who are Gentiles. Wert cut out of - Or, if thou wert of the cutting of the wild olive-tree. Which is wild by nature - Which is uncultivated and unfruitful. That is, if you were…
Adam Clarke
The olive tree, which is wild by nature - Which is κατα φυσιν, naturally, wild and barren; for that the wild olive bore no fruit is sufficiently evident from the testimony of the authors who have…
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 if thou, &c. Cp. on this verse notes on Rom 11:17.
how much more i.e. "how much more easily to our conception." As a fact, the Gentile had been grafted in, and no morethan this could happen to the…