Rom 11:1, Heb 7:14 | 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

CHAPTER 11 Ro 11:1-36. Same Subject Continued and Concluded--The Ultimate Inbringing of All Israel, to Be, with the Gentiles, One Kingdom of God on the Earth.

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).

‏ Hebrews 7:14

14. evident--literally, "manifest before the eyes" as a thing indisputable; a proof that whatever difficulties may now appear, then Jesus Christ's genealogy labored under none.

our Lord--the only place where this now common title occurs without "Jesus," or "Christ," except 2Pe 3:15.

sprang--as a plant, and a branch.

Judah--Ge 49:10; Lu 1:27, 39 (Hebron of Judah, where Lightfoot thinks Jesus was conceived) Lu 2:4, 5; Re 5:5.

of which tribe ... priesthood--"in respect to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priests" (so the oldest manuscripts read, nothing to imply that priests were to be taken from it).