Romans 11:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. ”

• Romans 11:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And they also - The Jews. If they bide not ... - If they do not continue in willful obstinacy and rejection of the Messiah. As their unbelief was the sole cause of their rejection, so if that...

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• Romans 11:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (12) And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. (12) Many are now for a season cut off, that is, are without the root, who in th...

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• Romans 11:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Ingrafting of the Gentiles. From Romans 9:1 onwards, Paul has written as a Jew to Jews; here he turns to the other half of the Church (see Introd. § 3). Romans 11:13 . But to you Gentil...

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• Romans 11:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  abide . continue, as above.

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• Romans 11:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  23. For God is able, etc. Frigid would this argument be to the profane; for however they may concede power to God, yet as they view it at a distance, shut up as it were in heaven, they do for...

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• Romans 11:23 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1898 THE DISPENSATIONS OF GOD TOWARDS JEWS AND GENTILES Romans 11:22-24 . Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, i...

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• Romans 11:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. If they abide not in unbelief - So, we find that their rejection took place in consequ...

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• Romans 11:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. And they also ('Yea, and they'), if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be...

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• Romans 11:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Israel's Rejection not final. A Warning to the Gentiles In this chapter St. Paul brings to an end his great exposition of God's dealings with the Jews. He has shown in Romans 9 that God is free...

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• Romans 11:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (11-24) In this section the Apostle goes on to consider further the bearings of the rejection, and here, first ( Romans 11:11-16 ), he considers the more hopeful side of it as regards the Jews themse...

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• Romans 11:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 23 ISRAEL'S FALL OVERRULED, FOR THE WORLD'S BLESSING, AND FOR ISRAEL'S MERCY Romans 11:11-24 THE Apostle has been led a few steps backwards in the last previous verses. His face has be...

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• Romans 11:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Others Grafted in by Faith Romans 11:13-24 Paul never abandoned the hope that ultimately Israel would come back to God in Christ. He believed that God's promises pointed in that direction, and...

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• Romans 11:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This discussion now gives rise to a new question, "Did God cast off His people?" They were created a nation in order that through them all the nations should be blessed. Failing to realize the divine...

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• Romans 11:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. (12) Now if the fall of them be t...

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• Romans 11:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief ,.... The apostle suggests that the Jews also might be recovered and brought into a Gospel church state, provided they did not continue in infideli...

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• Romans 11:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. Ver. 23. God is able ] He can fetch heart of oak out of a hollow tree, and of carn...

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• Romans 11:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Behold, therefore In this dispensation; the goodness and severity of God Consider them maturely, and lay them deeply to heart: on them which fell The unbelieving Jews, who took offence at the m...

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• Romans 11:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Israel Yet to be Restored We have seen in Romans 9:1-33 that there is an election according to the grace of God in Israel: in Romans 10:1-21 this is shown to be on the basis of faith in contra...

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• Romans 11:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The State of the Jews; The State of the Gentiles; The Gentiles Warned; The Future Conversion of the Jews. A. D.  58....

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• Romans 11:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Here he adds another argument, to repress the arrogance and insulting of the Gentiles; and it is taken from the hope of the Jews restoration. Though for the present they seem to be in a desperate and...

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• Romans 11:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  God's Purpose With Regard Both To The Jews and The Gentiles (11:1-36). Paul now carries forward the doctrine of the Israel within Israel, and evidences it again from Scripture, making clear that t...

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• Romans 11:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Romans 11:25 .—πλήρωμα is a word specially applied to ships. The full complement of the Gentile world shall enter the sacred vessel of the Church, the ark of salvation. MAIN HOMI...

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• Romans 11:23 - Scofield Reference Notes

  abide See ( Jeremiah 3:21-25 ); ( Jeremiah 3:50 ); ( Jeremiah 3:4 ); ( Jeremiah 3:5 ); ( 2 Corinthians 3:16 ).

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• Romans 11:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Romans 11:1 . Hath God cast away his people? The jews would say, what else can we infer? If the gentiles are now become the Israel of God, and if we are rejected for not embracing what Paul calls...

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• Romans 11:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, wert grafted in. The olive-tree I. Why it is a symbol. 1. Of God’s faithful witnesses ( Zechariah 4:5 ; Revelat...

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• Romans 11:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Romans 11:1-45 (4) The Jews are not finally rejected, but, through the calling of the Gentiles, will be brought into the Church at last. St. Paul, painfully recognizing the f...

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• Romans 11:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A warning to the Gentile Christians:

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• Romans 11:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 3:16 ; Matthew 23:39 ; Zechariah 12:10

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• Romans 11:23 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Missions in the Epistles Romans 10:11-15 ; Romans 11:15-28 INTRODUCTORY WORDS This study as a whole will give some idea of the missionary vision as set forth in Paul's Epistles. 1. The...

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