Romans 11:10

let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and let them bow down their back always.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

In Context

9And David says: Let their table become a trap, and a net, and a snare, and a recompense to them;

11I say, then, Have they stumbled, in order that they may fall? It can not be. But rather, through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to excite them to jealousy.

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Cross References

Romans 1:21because, when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful; but they became perverse in their reasonings, and their wicked heart was darkened;

Ephesians 4:18darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

2 Peter 2:17These men are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, for whom the gloom of darkness is reserved forever.

Jude 1:13raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame: wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

Matthew Henry on Romans 11:2-33

The State of the Jews; The State of the Gentiles; The Gentiles Warned; The Future Conversion of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my… Read the whole commentary →

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