Romans 11:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. ”

• Romans 11:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  As concerning the gospel - So far as the gospel is concerned; or, in order to promote its extension and spread through the earth. They are enemies - The word “enemies” here stands opposed to...

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• Romans 11:28 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (14) As concerning the (d) gospel, [they are] enemies for your sakes: but as touching the (e) election, [they are] beloved for the fathers' sakes. (14) Again, that he may join the Jews and Gentiles...

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• Romans 11:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Mystery of Israel's Future. Romans 11:25-26 a . It may save Gentile believers from a dangerous self-conceit ( cf. Romans 12:16 ) to learn the secret that the hardening (see Romans 11:7 )...

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• Romans 11:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  As concerning . App-104. for... sakes . on account of (App-104. Romans 11:2 ; Romans 11:2 ). as touching . as concerning, as above. beloved . App-135.

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• Romans 11:28 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  28. With regard indeed to the gospel, etc. He shows that the worst thing in the Jews ought not to subject them to the contempt of the Gentiles. Their chief crime was unbelief: but Paul teach...

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• Romans 11:28 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1900 THE JEWS STILL BELOVED OF GOD, FOR THEIR FATHERS’ SAKE Romans 11:28-29 . As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved...

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• Romans 11:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. As concerning the Gospel - The unbelieving Jews, with regard to t...

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• Romans 11:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  They are enemies for your sakes— Enemies signify strangers, or aliens; that is to say, such as are no longer to be the peculiar people of God: for they are called enemies, in opposition t...

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• Romans 11:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes...

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• Romans 11:28 - 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 11:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (25-32) There was a deep meaning underlying the temporary rejection of Israel, of which he has been speaking — a meaning which has hitherto been kept secret, but now to be revealed as a corrective to...

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• Romans 11:28 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 24 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL DIRECTLY FORETOLD: ALL IS OF AND FOR GOD Romans 11:25-36 THUS far St. Paul has rather reasoned than predicted. He has shown his Gentile friends the natural...

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• Romans 11:28 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  That God “Might Have Mercy upon All” Romans 11:25-36 “Mysteries” are the reasons and principles of the divine procedure which are hidden from ordinary minds, but revealed to the children of God...

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• Romans 11:28 - 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 11:28 - 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 11:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  As concerning the Gospel ,.... Whereas it might be objected to the call and conversion of the Jews, their implacable enmity to the Gospel, the apostle replies, by granting, that with respect to that...

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• Romans 11:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. Ver. 28. They are enemies ] i.e. Hated of God, as appears b...

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• Romans 11:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  As concerning the gospel That is, in reference to the gospel; they are enemies for your sakes They reject it with the greater hatred, because you embrace it, or rather, (for they generally reject...

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• Romans 11:28 - 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 11:28 - 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 11:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " Romans 11:27 "

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• Romans 11:28 - 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 11:28 - 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 11:28 - 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 11:28 - The Biblical Illustrator

  As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes. Enemies may be unconscious helpers During the siege of Sebastopol a Russian shell buried itself in the side of a hill without the city...

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• Romans 11:28 - 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 11:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes; but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

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• Romans 11:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Thessalonians 2:15 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:16 ; Acts 13:45 ; Acts 13:46 ; Acts 14:2 ; Acts 18:6 ; Deuteronomy 10:15 ; Deuteronomy 4:31 ; Deuteronomy 7:7 ; Deuteronomy 7:8 ; Deuteronomy 8:18...

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• Romans 11:28 - 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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• Romans 11:28 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  They are now enemies — To the gospel, to God, and to themselves, which God permits. For your sake: but as for the election — That part of them who believe, they are beloved.

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