Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED AND CONCLUDED--THE ULTIMATE INBRINGING OF ALL ISRAEL, TO BE, WITH THE GENTILES, ONE KINGDOM OF GOD ON THE EARTH. (Rom. 11:1-36)
I say then, Hath--"Did"
God cast away his people? God forbid--Our Lord did indeed announce that "the kingdom of God should be taken from Israel" (Matthew 21:41); and when asked by the Eleven, after His resurrection, if He would at that time "restore the kingdom to Israel," His reply is a virtual admission that Israel was in some sense already out of covenant (Acts 1:9). Yet here the apostle teaches that, in two respects, Israel was not "cast away"; First, Not totally; Second, Not finally. FIRST, Israel is not wholly cast away.
for I also am an Israelite--See Philippians 3:5, and so a living witness to the contrary.
of the seed of Abraham--of pure descent from the father of the faithful.
of the tribe of Benjamin-- (Philippians 3:5), that tribe which, on the revolt of the ten tribes, constituted, with Judah, the one faithful kingdom of God (1 Kings 12:21), and after the captivity was, along with Judah, the kernel of the Jewish nation (Ezra 4:1; Ezra 10:9).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 66:9
Luke 2:36
Romans 9:4
Romans 11:15
Romans 11:36
2 Corinthians 11:22
Philippians 1:6
1 Timothy 2:7
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