SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:24
Porque si t eres cortado de la oliva que es silvestre por naturaleza, y contra natura fuiste injertado en la buena oliva, ¿cunto ms stos, que son las ramas naturales, sern injertados en su oliva?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Romans 11:24
Verse 24. The olive tree, which is wild by nature] Which is kata fusin, naturally, wild and barren; for that the wild olive bore no fruit is sufficiently evident from the testimony of the authors who have written on the subject; hence the proverb, akarpoterov agrippou? more unfruitful than the wild olive. lakwnev gar agrian elaian agippon kalousi? for the Lacedemonians term the wild olive agrippon. See SUIDAS. And hence HESYCHIUS interprets agrielaiov, the wild olive, (the word used here by St. Paul,) by akarpov, unfruitful: and the reason given in DIOGen. Proverb. Cent. ii. n. 63, is futon gar estin o agrippov akarpon? for the wild olive is an unfruitful tree. On this account the apostle very properly says: Thou wert cut, ek thv kata fusin agrielaiou, out of that olive which is uncultivated, because it is barren: the kata fusin does not refer here to its being naturally barren; but to its being commonly or customarily permitted to remain so. And that this is the import of the phrase here is evident from the next clause of the verse. And wert grafted contrary to nature] para fusin, contrary to all custom; for a scion taken from a barren or useless tree is scarcely ever known to be grafted into a good stock; but here the Gentiles, a fruitless and sinful race, are grafted on the ancient patriarchal stock. Now, if it was possible to effect such a change in the state and disposition of the Gentiles, who were aqeoi en tw kosmw, Eph. ii. 12, without God, ATHEISTS, in the world; how much more possible is it, speaking after the manner of men, to bring about a similar change in the Jews, who acknowledge the one, only, and true God, and receive the law and the prophets as a revelation from him. This seems to be the drift of the apostle's argument.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 24. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree , etc..] As the apostle argues the possibility of bringing the Jews into a Gospel church state, from the power of God; so here the probability of it, or the easiness and likelihood of its being performed, from the ingrafting of the Gentiles; who were originally like an olive tree, which is wild by nature , grows in the field, bears no fruit, and is useless and unprofitable; so they by nature were sinners of the Gentiles, children of wrath, full of unrighteousness, without any fruit of holiness; being not within the pale of the Jewish church and commonwealth; but in the wide field of the world, worthless, and of no account; and yet many were cut out of this wild olive tree; were, through the ministration of the Gospel, by the power of divine grace separated from the rest of the world; were effectually called and brought into a Gospel church state; God took out from among them a people for his name. This their being cut out of the wild olive, as it expresses the power and grace of God towards them, it might teach them humility, as it led them to observe their original state and condition: and wert grafted, contrary to nature, into a good olive tree : for an olive tree being full of fatness, will not admit of ingrafting; nor was it ever usual to ingraft upon olive; hence the Jews say jbkrh hb ya ytz , there is no ingrafting on olives: besides, it is contrary to nature, use, and custom, to ingraft wild scions, or grafts of any sort into a good stock; but always good scions or grafts into a wild stock, for in wild hungry stocks, grafts grow best: but in the ingrafting of the Gentiles into a Gospel church state, just such a method was taken, as if a wild graft were let into a good stock; so that this ingrafting was not of nature, it was contrary to it; but of pure grace, and, sovereign good will and pleasure; and the apostle's argument is this, that if the Gentiles, who were originally as a wild olive tree; if some as grafts were taken out from among them, and, quite contrary to their own nature, and the nature of things, were, by the goodness and grace of God, grafted into a good olive, the Gospel church state; how much more shall these which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree ? that there is a greater likelihood, and more easily may it be, according to all appearance of things, that the Jews, the natural branches or descendants of Abraham, should be brought into a Gospel church state, which first began among them, and which at first only consisted of some of their nation. The Gospel church is called their own olive tree, in allusion to Israel, or the Jewish church, which is often so called in their writings. Says R. Joshua ben Levi, to what are the Israelites like? tyzl , to an olive tree; to teach them that as the leaves of an olive tree do not fall, neither on sunshine days, nor on rainy days; so the Israelites will never cease, neither in this world, nor in the world to come; and says R. Jochanan, to what are the Israelites like? to an olive; to teach thee that as an olive does not send forth its oil, but by the means of pressing, so the Israelites do not return to do good, but by the means of chastisement: and says another of their writers, as oil ascendeth above all liquids, and is not mixed with them; so the Israelites ascend above all nations, and are not mixed with them; and there is an intimation that they are even like tyzl , to an olive, that is pressed or squeezed; for so the Israelites are bruised and afflicted, and yet, notwithstanding all this, they ascend by virtue of the law, which is called oil olive.
It is easy to see from whence this simile is borrowed.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 22-32 - Of all judgments, spiritual judgments are the sorest; of these the apostle is here speaking. The restoration of the Jews is, in the cours of things, far less improbable than the call of the Gentiles to be the children of Abraham; and though others now possess these privileges, it will not hinder their being admitted again. By rejecting the gospel and by their indignation at its being preached to the Gentiles, the Jews were become enemies to God; yet they are still to be favoured for the sake of their pious fathers. Though at present they are enemies to the gospel, for their hatred to the Gentiles; yet, when God's time is come, that will no longer exist, and God's love to their fathers wil be remembered. True grace seeks not to confine God's favour. Those wh find mercy themselves, should endeavour that through their mercy other also may obtain mercy. Not that the Jews will be restored to have their priesthood, and temple, and ceremonies again; an end is put to all these; but they are to be brought to believe in Christ, the true becom one sheep-fold with the Gentiles, under Christ the Great Shepherd. The captivities of Israel, their dispersion, and their being shut out from the church, are emblems of the believer's corrections for doing wrong and the continued care of the Lord towards that people, and the fina mercy and blessed restoration intended for them, show the patience an love of God.
Greek Textus Receptus
ει 1487 COND γαρ 1063 CONJ συ 4771 P-2NS εκ 1537 PREP της 3588 T-GSF κατα 2596 PREP φυσιν 5449 N-ASF εξεκοπης 1581 5648 V-2API-2S αγριελαιου 65 N-GSF και 2532 CONJ παρα 3844 PREP φυσιν 5449 N-ASF ενεκεντρισθης 1461 5681 V-API-2S εις 1519 PREP καλλιελαιον 2565 N-ASF ποσω 4214 Q-DSN μαλλον 3123 ADV ουτοι 3778 D-NPM οι 3588 T-NPM κατα 2596 PREP φυσιν 5449 N-ASF εγκεντρισθησονται 1461 5701 V-FPI-3P τη 3588 T-DSF ιδια 2398 A-DSF ελαια 1636 N-DSF
Vincent's NT Word Studies
24. Contrary to nature. See remarks on ver. 17.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
11:24 {Contrary to nature} (para fusin). this is the gist of the argument, the power of God to do what is contrary to natural processes. He put the wild olive (Gentile) into the good olive tree (the spiritual Israel) and made the wild olive (contrary to nature) become the good olive (kallielaios, the garden olive, kallos and elaia in Aristotle and a papyrus). {Into their own olive tree} (ti idiai elaiai). Dative case. Another argument _a fortiori_, "how much more" (pollwi mallon). God can graft the natural Israel back upon the spiritual Israel, if they become willing.
