SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:15
Porque si el desechamiento de ellos es la reconciliacin del mundo, ¿qu ser el recibimiento de ellos , sino vida de entre los muertos?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Romans 11:15
Verse 15. But life from the dead] If the rejection of the Jews became the occasion of our receiving the Gospel, so that we can even glory in our tribulations, though they themselves became chief instruments of our sufferings; yet so far must we feel from exulting over them that we should esteem their full conversion to God as great and choice a favour as we would the restoration of a most intimate friend to life, who had been at the gates of death. The restoration of the Jews to a state of favour with God to which the apostle refers, and which is too plainly intimated by the spirit of prophecy to admit of a doubt, will be a most striking event. Their being preserved as a distinct people is certainly a strong collateral proof that they shall once more be brought into the Church of God: and their conversion to Christianity will be an incontestable proof of the truth of Divine revelation; and doubtless will become the means of converting multitudes of deists, who will see the prophecies of God, which had been delivered so long before, so strikingly fulfilled in this great event. We need not wonder, if a whole nation should then be born as in a day.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 15. For if the casting away of them , etc..] This argument, as before, in ( Romans 11:12), is from the lesser to the greater, showing that as the Gentiles received present advantage through the rejection of the Jews, they would receive far greater at their future recovery, and which proves that their rejection is not final; for by the casting away of them, is meant the rejection of the Jews, and refers to God's writing a Lo-ammi, ( Hosea 1:9), upon them, and his taking away the Gospel from them, and which were the occasion of the reconciling of the world , the Gentiles; not of God's drawing the scheme of their reconciliation in his Son; nor of the actual reconciliation of them by his sufferings and death; but of the Gospel, the word of reconciliation being carried among them upon the Jews' disbelief and contempt of it, which was made effectual by the power of divine grace, to the reconciling of them to God, to the, way of salvation by Christ; to be willing to serve him, and be saved by him; to, lay down their arms, surrender to his victorious grace, and become obedient to him both by word and deed; and if this was the case then, as it was, he asks what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead ? By the receiving of them is meant the conversion of the Jews in the latter day, when they will be received by Christ, on whom they will look with an eye of faith, and mourn in an evangelical manner for their sins against him; who casts out none that come unto him, but receives them into his arms in the most kind and tender manner; and when they will be also openly received into the house and family of God, into the visible church of Christ; and as the apostle afterwards says, be grafted into their own olive tree, ( Romans 11:24); and this their restoration will be as life from the dead; which regards not so much the quickening of the Jews themselves, though their conversion will be, as the conversion of every sinner is, a resurrection from the death of sin to a life of grace, and is so represented in ( Ezekiel 37:1-14), but rather the reviving the work of God among the Gentile churches, who having lain long in a dead, lifeless, lukewarm, and indifferent frame of spirit, will be aroused and quickened, at this wonderful work of grace upon the Jews; and besides it will be as unexpected by them, and as surprising to them, as a person's being raised from the dead would be; yea as joyful, and as welcome to them, as if a man received his nearest relation and friend from the dead; add to this, and which some of the ancients make to be the sense of the place, quickly after the conversion of the Jews, the fulness of the Gentiles being brought in, and nothing more to be done in a way of grace, the first resurrection from the dead will follow, and happy is he that will have part in it.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 11-21 - The gospel is the greatest riches of every place where it is. A therefore the righteous rejection of the unbelieving Jews, was the occasion of so large a multitude of the Gentiles being reconciled to God, and at peace with him; the future receiving of the Jews into the church would be such a change, as would resemble a general resurrectio of the dead in sin to a life of righteousness. Abraham was as the roo of the church. The Jews continued branches of this tree till, as nation, they rejected the Messiah; after that, their relation to Abraham and to God was, as it were, cut off. The Gentiles were grafte into this tree in their room; being admitted into the church of God Multitudes were made heirs of Abraham's faith, holiness an blessedness. It is the natural state of every one of us, to be wild by nature. Conversion is as the grafting in of wild branches into the goo olive. The wild olive was often ingrafted into the fruitful one when it began to decay, and this not only brought forth fruit, but caused the decaying olive to revive and flourish. The Gentiles, of free grace, ha been grafted in to share advantages. They ought therefore to beware of self-confidence, and every kind of pride or ambition; lest, having onl a dead faith, and an empty profession, they should turn from God, an forfeit their privileges. If we stand at all, it is by faith; we ar guilty and helpless in ourselves, and are to be humble, watchful afraid of self-deception, or of being overcome by temptation. Not onl are we at first justified by faith, but kept to the end in tha justified state by faith only; yet, by a faith which is not alone, but which worketh by love to God and man.
Greek Textus Receptus
ει 1487 COND γαρ 1063 CONJ η 3588 T-NSF αποβολη 580 N-NSF αυτων 846 P-GPM καταλλαγη 2643 N-NSF κοσμου 2889 N-GSM τις 5101 I-NSF η 3588 T-NSF προσληψις 4356 N-NSF ει 1487 COND μη 3361 PRT-N ζωη 2222 N-NSF εκ 1537 PREP νεκρων 3498 A-GPM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
15. The casting away (h apobolh). In contrast with receiving. Only here and Acts xxvii. 22, where it means loss. Here exclusion from God's people. Reconciling of the world (katallagh kosmou). See on ch. v. 10, 11. Defining the phrase riches of the world in ver. 12.Life from the dead. The exact meaning cannot be determined. Some refer it to the resurrection to follow the conversion of Israel, including the new life which the resurrection will inaugurate. Others, a new spiritual life. Others combine the two views.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
11:15 {The casting away of them} (h apobol autwn). Objective genitive (autwn) with apobol, old word from apoballw, to throw off (#Mr 10:50), in N.T. only here and #Ac 27:22. {The reconciling of the world} (katallage kosmou). See #5:10f. for katallage (reconciling). It explains verse #12. {The receiving} (h proslmpsis). Old word from proslambanw, to take to oneself, only here in N.T. {Life from the dead} (z" ek nekr"n). Already the conversion of Jews had become so difficult. It is like a miracle of grace today, though it does happen. Many think that Paul means that the general resurrection and the end will come when the Jews are converted. Possibly so, but it is by no means certain. His language may be merely figurative.
