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Israel’s Rejection Not Total

1 I say then, ahas God cast away His people? bCertainly not! For cI also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.  
2 God has not cast away His people whom aHe foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,  
3 a“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”?  
4 But what does the divine response say to him? a“I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”  
5 aEven so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.  
6 And aif by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.1 But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.  
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Romans 11:3

They have digged down (kateskayan). First aorist active indicative of kataskaptw, to dig under or down. Old verb, here only in N.T. (critical text). LXX has kaqeilan "pulled down." Paul has reversed the order of the LXX of I Kings 19:10, I Kings 19:14, I Kings 19:18.

Altars (qusiasthria). Late word (LXX, Philo, Josephus, N.T. eccl. writers) from qusiazw, to sacrifice. See Acts 17:23.

And I am left alone (kagw upeleifqhn monov). First aorist passive indicative of upoleipw, old word, to leave under or behind, here only in N.T. Elijah's mood was that of utter dejection in his flight from Jezebel.

Life (yuxhn). It is not possible to draw a clear distinction between yuxh (soul) and pneuma (spirit). Yuxh is from yuxw, to breathe or blow, pneuma from pnew, to blow. Both are used for the personality and for the immortal part of man. Paul is usually dichotomous in his language, but sometimes trichotomous in a popular sense. We cannot hold Paul's terms to our modern psychological distinctions.




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