Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway - `and ever bow thou down their back;' expressive either of the decrepitude or of the servile condition to come on the nation through the just judgment of God. The apostle's object in making these quotations is to show that what he had been compelled to say of the then condition and prospects of his nation was more than borne out by their own Scriptures. But now,
Secondly: Israel, even as a Nation, Is Not FINALLY Rejected, but Is Destined to a Glorious Recovery (Romans 11:11-31)