7What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
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Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. …
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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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