21For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
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For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; …
For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.
For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
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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