Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
Paul quotes David's sentence upon unbelieving Israel, that their eyes should be darkened so they cannot see and their backs bowed continually, describing a partial blindness and darkened sight with continual burden that came through unbelief and stumbling and marks Israel's condition. That darkening does not mean Israel stumbled into a final and irrecoverable fall, nor that the Jews are beyond hope. Through their fall and diminishing, salvation and riches came to the Gentiles in order to provoke Israel to jealousy and emulation.
The natural branches were broken off because of unbelief, while Gentile believers stand only by faith as branches of the wild olive grafted contrary to nature into the good olive to share its root and fatness. Those so grafted in must not be high-minded nor boast against the branches nor despise the Jews, but must continue in God's goodness, for the God who did not spare the natural branches will also cut off those who do not continue. Blindness in part has happened to Israel only until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in.
Jews who do not remain in unbelief, though they fell under severity, can be grafted back into their own olive tree, for God is able to graft them in again. When the fullness of the Gentiles comes in, all Israel will be saved, for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance and the Jews remain beloved for the sake of the fathers. Their fullness and receiving will be still greater riches to the world and as life from the dead.
Among the Jews the Lord has mighty men who will be converted and proclaim the truth with power, and many will come to the light of present truth and proclaim the immutability of God's law with wonderful power. The verse belongs to the teaching of Romans 11, which is to be studied carefully because it outlines a great work to be done for the Jewish people. That work for the Jews must not be ignored but must be done with special wisdom, with God's wisdom coming to His people so that in all wisdom and righteousness they clear the King's highway and give the Jews every opportunity to come to the light.
Jews who accept Christ are cut off from their people and need a place of refuge where they can be sheltered and taught to work for their own people, and patient labor for them will succeed so that many of the seed of Israel may be grafted into the true stock, Christ Jesus.
Paul quotes David's sentence upon unbelieving Israel, that their eyes should be darkened so they cannot see and their backs bowed continually, describing a partial blindness and darkened sight with continual burden that came through unbelief and stumbling and marks Israel's condition. That darkening does not mean Israel stumbled into a final and irrecoverable fall, nor that the Jews are beyond hope. Through their fall and diminishing, salvation and riches came to the Gentiles in order to provoke Israel to jealousy and emulation.
The natural branches were broken off because of unbelief, while Gentile believers stand only by faith as branches of the wild olive grafted contrary to nature into the good olive to share its root and fatness. Those so grafted in must not be high-minded nor boast against the branches nor despise the Jews, but must continue in God's goodness, for the God who did not spare the natural branches will also cut off those who do not continue. Blindness in part has happened to Israel only until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in.
Jews who do not remain in unbelief, though they fell under severity, can be grafted back into their own olive tree, for God is able to graft them in again. When the fullness of the Gentiles comes in, all Israel will be saved, for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance and the Jews remain beloved for the sake of the fathers. Their fullness and receiving will be still greater riches to the world and as life from the dead.
Among the Jews the Lord has mighty men who will be converted and proclaim the truth with power, and many will come to the light of present truth and proclaim the immutability of God's law with wonderful power. The verse belongs to the teaching of Romans 11, which is to be studied carefully because it outlines a great work to be done for the Jewish people. That work for the Jews must not be ignored but must be done with special wisdom, with God's wisdom coming to His people so that in all wisdom and righteousness they clear the King's highway and give the Jews every opportunity to come to the light.
Jews who accept Christ are cut off from their people and need a place of refuge where they can be sheltered and taught to work for their own people, and patient labor for them will succeed so that many of the seed of Israel may be grafted into the true stock, Christ Jesus.