15. For if the casting away of them--The apostle had denied that they
were east away
(Ro 11:1);
here he affirms it. But both are true; they were cast away,
though neither totally nor finally, and it is of this partial and
temporary rejection that the apostle here speaks.
be the reconciling of the--Gentile
world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?--The
reception of the whole family of Israel, scattered as they are among
all nations under heaven, and the most inveterate enemies of the Lord
Jesus, will be such a stupendous manifestation of the power of God upon
the spirits of men, and of His glorious presence with the heralds of the
Cross, as will not only kindle devout astonishment far and wide, but so
change the dominant mode of thinking and feeling on all spiritual things
as to seem like a resurrection from the dead.
JFB.
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