Romans 11:1
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and bow down their back always.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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1 Samuel 12:22And the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because the Lord hath sworn to make you his people.
Psalms 77:7And I meditated in the night with my own heart: and I was exercised and I swept my spirit.
Psalms 94:14For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake his own inheritance.
Jeremiah 33:24Hast thou not seen what this people hath spoken, saying: The two families which the Lord had chosen, are cast off: and they have despised my people, so that it is no more a nation before them?
Amos 9:8Behold the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth: but yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.
Acts 26:4And my life indeed from my youth, which was from the beginning among my own nation in Jerusalem, all the Jews do know:
Matthew Henry on Romans 11:1
The apostle, having reconciled that great truth of the rejection of the Jews with the promise made unto the fathers, is, in this chapter, further labouring to mollify the harshness of it, and to reconcile it to the divine goodness in general. It might be said, "Hath God then cast away his people?" The apostles therefore sets himself, in this chapter, to make a reply to this objection, and that two ways:—I. He shows at large what the mercy is that is mixed with this wrath, ver. 1-32 . II. He infers thence the… Read the whole commentary →