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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Romans 11:2
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Israel was
the people foreknown, "the chosen people". In Romans 11:1, "his people"
refers to the nation; here it must mean the same, not individuals. The
nation foreknown and chosen is not totally and eternally cast off. This
is what Paul means, and what he devotes the rest of the chapter to
proving. He first shows that a portion of Israel is saved.
Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? The passage referred
to is found in 1 Kings 19:10.
How he maketh intercession to God against Israel. Elijah, a
fugitive for his life, in his appeal to God, assumes that all Israel
had fallen into the idol worship of Ahab and Jezebel. But there were
true worshipers left, although the nation seemed to have fallen away.
In what seemed a general apostasy, there were seven thousand left
(1 Kings 19:18). So, argues the apostle, there are faithful ones left
now in Israel.
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Romans 11:2
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