Romans:11:1-10

geneva@Romans:11:1 @ 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.

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geneva@Romans:11:3 @ Lord, they haue killed thy Prophets, and digged downe thine altars: and I am left alone, and they seeke my life?

geneva@Romans:11:4 @ 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.

geneva@Romans:11:5 @ 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.

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geneva@Romans:11:7 @ 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

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geneva@Romans:11:9 @ 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:

geneva@Romans:11:10 @ Let their eyes be darkened that they see not, and bowe downe their backe alwayes.

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