Rom 11:1, Heb 7:14 | JFB | e4.org | 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

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).