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9 And David says:
a“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
A stumbling block and a recompense to them. 
10 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see,
And bow down their back always.”

Israel’s Rejection Not Final

11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But athrough their fall, to provoke them to bjealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.  
12 Now if their1 fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!  
13 For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as aI am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,  
14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and asave some of them.  
15 For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be abut life from the dead?  
16 For if athe firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.  
17 And if asome of the branches were broken off, band you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and1 fatness of the olive tree,  
18 ado not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.  
19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.”
20 Well said. Because of aunbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.  
21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.
22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you,1 goodness, aif you continue in His goodness. Otherwise byou also will be cut off.  
23 And they also, aif they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.  
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Romans 11:11

Did they stumble that they might fall? (mh eptaisan ina peswsin). Negative answer expected by mh as in verse Romans 11:1. First aorist active indicative of ptaiw, old verb, to stumble, only here in Paul (see James 3:2), suggested perhaps by skandalon in verse Romans 11:9. If ina is final, then we must add "merely" to the idea, "merely that they might fall" or make a sharp distinction between ptaiw, to stumble, and piptw, to fall, and take peswsin as effective aorist active subjunctive to fall completely and for good. ina, as we know, can be either final, sub-final, or even result. See I Thessalonians 5:4; I Corinthians 7:29; Galatians 5:17. Paul rejects this query in verse Romans 11:11 as vehemently as he did that in verse Romans 11:1.

By their fall (tw autwn paraptwmati). Instrumental case. For the word, a falling aside or a false step from parapiptw, see Romans 5:15-20.

Is come. No verb in the Greek, but ginetai or gegonen is understood.

For to provoke them to jealousy (eiv to parazhlwsai). Purpose expressed by eiv and the articular infinitive, first aorist active, of parazhlow, for which verb see I Corinthians 10:22. As an historical fact Paul turned to the Gentiles when the Jews rejected his message (Acts 13:45 ff.; Acts 28:28, etc.).

The riches of the world (ploutov kosmou). See Romans 10:12.

Their loss (to htthma autwn). So perhaps in I Corinthians 6:7, but in Isaiah 31:8 defeat is the idea. Perhaps so here.

Fulness (plhrwma). Perhaps "completion," though the word from plhrow, to fill, has a variety of senses, that with which anything is filled (I Corinthians 10:26, I Corinthians 10:28), that which is filled (Ephesians 1:23).

How much more? (posw mallon). Argument a fortiori as in verse Romans 11:24. Verse Romans 11:25 illustrates the point.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Romans 11:11:

John 12:38
Romans 11:1
Romans 11:11
Romans 11:26
Romans 11:28
1 Timothy 6:10
James 2:10

 

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