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Romans 11:12 KJV
Romans · chapter 11 · verse 12
Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?Romans 11:12 · King James Version
Romans 11:12 in context
10Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
11I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- diminishinghēttēmaa diminution, decreaseG2275 →
- Gentilesethnosa multitude associated or living together, a company, troop, swarm, a multitude of…G1484 →
- richesploutosriches, wealth, abundance of external possessions, fulness, abundance, plenitude, a goodG4149 →
- worldkosmosan apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government, ornament…G2889 →
- fallparaptōmato fall beside or near something, a lapse or deviation from truth and uprightness, a sin…G3900 →
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The apostle proposes here a plausible objection, which might be urged against the divine conduct in casting off the Jewish nation (Rom 11:1): "Hath God cast away his people? Is the rejection total and final? Are they all abandoned to wrath and ruin, and that eternal? Is the extent of the sentence so large as to be…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-32