Romans:11

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* I say then , (note :)Now the apostle shows how this doctrine is to be applied to others , remaining still in his propounded cause . Therefore he teaches us that all the Jews in particular are not cast away , and therefore we ought not to pronounce rashly of individual persons , whether they are of the number of the elect or not .(:note ) Hath God cast away his people ? God forbid . For The first proof : I am a Jew , and yet elected , therefore we may and ought fully to be sure of our election , as has been said before : but of another man 's we cannot be so certainly sure , and yet ours may cause us to hope well of others . I also am an Israelite , of the seed of Abraham , [of ] the tribe of Benjamin . * * Lord , they haue killed thy Prophets , and digged downe thine altars : and I am left alone , and they seeke my life ? * But what saith the answer of God unto him ? I have (note :)He speaks of remnants and reserved people who were chosen from everlasting , and not of remnants that should be chosen afterwards : for they are not chosen , because they were not idolaters : but rather they were not idolaters , because they were chosen and elect .(:note ) reserved to myself seven thousand men , who have not bowed the knee to [the image of ] «Baal » signifies as much as «master » or «patron », or one in whose power another is , which name the idolaters in this day give their idols , naming them «patrons », and «patronesses » or «ladies ». Baal . * Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the (note :)The election of grace is not that by which men chose grace , but by which God chose us of his grace and goodness .(:note ) election of grace . * * What then ? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for ; but the election hath obtained it , and the rest were (note :)See ( Mar_3:5 ).(:note ) blinded * * And David saith , (note :)As unhappy birds are enticed by that which is their sustenance , and then killed , and so did that thing turn to the Jew 's destruction , out of which they sought life , that is , the law of God , for the preposterous zeal of which they refused the Gospel .(:note ) Let their table be made a snare , and a trap , and a stumblingblock , and a recompence unto them : * Let their eyes be darkened that they see not , and bowe downe their backe alwayes . * * Now if the fall of them [be ] the (note :)By «riches » he means the knowledge of the Gospel to everlasting life : and by the «world », all nations dispersed throughout the whole world .(:note ) riches of the world , and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles ; how much more their Of the Jews , when the whole nation without exception will come to Christ . fulness ? * * To trie if by any meanes I might prouoke them of my flesh to follow them , and might saue some of them . * For if the casting away of them [be ] the reconciling of the world , what [shall ] the receiving [of them be ], (note :)It will come to pass that when the Jews come to the Gospel , the world will as it were come to life again , and rise up from death to life .(:note ) but life from the dead ? * * * * Thou wilt say then , The branches are broken off , that I might be graft in . * Well ; because of unbelief they were broken off , and thou standest by faith . Be not highminded , but (note :)See that you stand in awe of God modestly , and carefully .(:note ) fear : * For if God spared not the (note :)He calls them natural , not because they had any holiness by nature , but because they were born of those whom the Lord set apart for himself from other nations , by his league and covenant which he freely made with them .(:note ) natural branches , [take heed ] lest he also spare not thee . * * * For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by (note :)Understand nature , not as it was first made , but as it was corrupted in Adam , and so passed on from him to his posterity .(:note ) nature , and wert graffed contrary to nature into a Into the people of the Jews , whom God had sanctified only by his grace : and he speaks of the whole nation , not of any one part . good olive tree : how much more shall these , which be the natural [branches ], be graffed into their own olive tree ? * * And so all Israel shalbe saued , as it is written , The deliuerer shall come out of Sion , and shall turne away the vngodlinesse from Iacob . * And this is my couenant to them , When I shall take away their sinnes . * * * * Euen so nowe haue they not beleeued by the mercie shewed vnto you , that they also may obtaine mercie . * For God hath concluded them (note :)Both Jews and Gentiles .(:note ) all in unbelief , that he might have mercy upon all . * * * Or who hath (note :)This saying overthrows the doctrine of foreseen works and merits .(:note ) first given to him , and it shall be recompensed unto him again ? * For of him , and through him , and to (note :)That is , for God , to whose glory all things are ascribed , not only things that were made , but especially his new works which he works in his elect .(:note ) him , [are ] all things : to whom [be ] glory for ever . Amen .

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