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Romans 11:7

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

What follows from this? Why, that Israel as a nation failed to secure what it was seeking, while those whom God selected did secure it.

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For they had not understood about the loaves, their minds being slow to learn.

"Strive to go in by the small door. Many, I tell you, will seek to go in, but they will not be able,

'He has blinded their eyes, and blunted their mind, so that they should not see with their eyes, and perceive with their mind, and turn--And I should heal them.'

For, in their ignorance of the Divine Righteousness, and in their eagerness to set up a righteousness of their own, they refused to accept with submission the Divine Righteousness.

Brothers, for fear that you should think too highly of yourselves, I want you to recognize the truth, hitherto hidden, that the callousness which has come over Israel is only partial, and will continue only till the whole Gentile world has been gathered in.

And so in our own time, too, there is to be found a remnant of our nation selected by God in love.

What follows, then? Are we Jews in any way superior to others? Not at all. Our indictment against both Jews and Greeks was that all alike were in subjection to sin.

What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of Love and not of Law? Heaven forbid!

So, then, where God wills, he takes pity, and where he wills, he hardens the heart.

So as to make known his surpassing glory in dealing with the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared beforehand for glory,

What do I mean? you ask. Than an offering made to an idol, or the idol itself, is anything?

But their minds were slow to learn. Indeed, to this very day, at the public reading of the Old Covenant, the same veil remains unlifted; only for those who are in union with Christ does it pass away.

Men whose minds have been blinded by the God of this Age, unbelievers as they are, so that the light from the Good News of the glory of the Christ, who is the very incarnation of God, should not shine for them.

For he chose us in our union with Christ before the creation of the universe, that we might be holy and blameless in his sight, living in the spirit of love.

With their powers of discernment darkened, cut off from the Life of God, owing to the ignorance that prevails among them and to the hardness of their hearts.

But what of that? Only that in some way or other, either with assumed or with real earnestness, Christ is being made known; and at that I rejoice.

For you know that even afterwards, when he wished to claim his father's blessing, he was rejected--for he never found an opportunity to repair his error--though he begged for the blessing with tears.

and who were chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the consecration of the Spirit, to learn obedience, and to be purified by the sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ, from Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ. May blessing and peace be yours in ever-increasing measure.




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