Romans 11:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

q.d. And I thus extol God's favour and mercy to you, that it may be a means (if God please) to provoke the Jews, that are my own flesh and blood, to a holy emulation or jealousy, \see Romans 11:11\ when they shall see the Gentiles possess what was promised to them. Question. How doth he say, that he may save some of them? Is not God the author of salvation? Answer. Yes; but he hath given his ministers to be instruments therein, and called them fellow workers with himself, 1 Corinthians 6:1: see 1 Timothy 4:16.

Romans 11:14

14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.