30For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
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In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; …
Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
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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