19Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
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And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
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. …
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-32)The apostle proposes here a plausible objection, which might be urged against the divine conduct in casting off the Jewish nation (Rom. 11:1): “ Hath God cast away his people ? Isa. the rejection total and final? Are they all abandoned to wrath and ruin, and that eternal? Isa. the extent of the sentence so large as to be without reserve, or the continuance of it so long as to be without repeal? Wi…
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