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Romans 11:16 KJV
Romans · chapter 11 · verse 16
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.Romans 11:16 · King James Version
Romans 11:16 in context
14If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- firstfruitaparchēto offer firstlings or firstfruits, to take away the firstfruits of the productions of…G536 →
- holyhagiosmost holy thing, a saintG40 →
- lumpphyramaany substance mixed with water and kneaded, a mass, a lump, of dough, of clayG5445 →
- rootrhizaa root, that which like a root springs from a root, a sprout, shoot, metaph. offspring…G4491 →
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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