Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Romans 11:1
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1. I say then, Hath —"Did" God cast away his people? God forbid —Our Lord did indeed announce that "the kingdom of God should be taken from Israel" ( :- ); and when asked by the Eleven, after His resurrection, if He would at that time " restore the kingdom to Israel," His reply is a virtual admission that Israel was in some sense already out of covenant ( Acts 1:9 ). Yet here the apostle teaches that, in two respects, Israel was not "cast away"; First, Not totally; Second, Not finally. FIRST, Israel is not wholly cast away. for I also am an Israelite —See Philippians 3:5 , and so a living witness to the contrary. of the seed of Abraham —of pure descent from the father of the faithful. of the tribe of Benjamin — ( Philippians 3:5 ), that tribe which, on the revolt of the ten tribes, constituted, with Judah, the one faithful kingdom of God ( Philippians 3:5- : ), and after the captivity was, along with Judah, the kernel of the Jewish nation ( Ezra 4:1 ; Ezra 10:9 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-2" class="com-number"
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