12. Now if the fall of them--"But if their trespass," or "false step"
be the riches of the--Gentile
world--as being the occasion of their accession to Christ.
and the diminishing of them--that is, the reduction of the true Israel to so small a remnant.
the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness!--that
is, their full recovery (see on
Ro 11:26);
that is, "If an event so untoward as Israel's fall was the occasion of
such unspeakable good to the Gentile world, of how much greater good
may we expect an event so blessed as their full recovery to be
productive?"
JFB.
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