Rom 11:7-10 | JFB | e4.org | 7-10. What then? —How stands the fact? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for —better, "What Israel is in search of (that is, Justification, or acceptance with God—see on ); this he found not; but the election (the elect remnant of Israel) found it, and the rest were hardened," or judicially given over to the "hardness of their own hearts."

‏ Romans 11:7-10

7-10. What then?—How stands the fact?

Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for—better, "What Israel is in search of (that is, Justification, or acceptance with God—see on Ro 9:31); this he found not; but the election (the elect remnant of Israel) found it, and the rest were hardened," or judicially given over to the "hardness of their own hearts."

8. as it is written— (Isa 29:10; De 29:4).

God hath given—"gave"

them the spirit of slumber—"stupor"

unto this day—"this present day."

9. And David saith— (Ps 69:23), which in such a Messianic psalm must be meant of the rejecters of Christ.

Let their table, &c.—that is, Let their very blessings prove a curse to them, and their enjoyments only sting and take vengeance on them.

10. Let their eyes be darkened . . . and bow down their back alway—expressive either of the decrepitude, or of the servile condition, to come on the nation through the just judgment of God. The apostle's object in making these quotations is to show that what he had been compelled to say of the then condition and prospects of his nation was more than borne out by their own Scriptures. But, SECONDLY, God has not cast away His people finally. The illustration of this point extends, Ro 11:11-31.