Rom 11:1 | JFB | STEP | 1. I say then, Hath —"Did" God cast away his people? God forbid —Our Lord did indeed announce that "the kingdom of God should be taken from Israel" ( ); and when asked by the Eleven, after His resurrection, if He would at that time " restore the kingdom to Israel," His reply is a virtual admission that Israel was in some sense already out of covenant ( ). Yet here the apostle teaches that, in two respects, Israel was not "cast away"; First, Not totally; Second, Not finally. FIRST , Israel is not wholly cast away. for I also am an Israelite —See , and so a living witness to the contrary. of the seed of Abraham —of pure descent from the father of the faithful. of the tribe of Benjamin — ( ), that tribe which, on the revolt of the ten tribes, constituted, with Judah, the one faithful kingdom of God ( ), and after the captivity was, along with Judah, the kernel of the Jewish nation ( ).

Romans 11:1

1. I say then, Hath—"Did"

God cast away his people? God forbid—Our Lord did indeed announce that "the kingdom of God should be taken from Israel" (Mt 21:41); and when asked by the Eleven, after His resurrection, if He would at that time "restore the kingdom to Israel," His reply is a virtual admission that Israel was in some sense already out of covenant (Ac 1:9). Yet here the apostle teaches that, in two respects, Israel was not "cast away"; First, Not totally; Second, Not finally. FIRST, Israel is not wholly cast away.

for I also am an Israelite—See Php 3:5, and so a living witness to the contrary.

of the seed of Abraham—of pure descent from the father of the faithful.

of the tribe of Benjamin— (Php 3:5), that tribe which, on the revolt of the ten tribes, constituted, with Judah, the one faithful kingdom of God (1Ki 12:21), and after the captivity was, along with Judah, the kernel of the Jewish nation (Ezr 4:1; 10:9).