Römer 11:23

23 Und auch jene, wenn sie nicht im Unglauben bleiben, werden eingepfropft werden; denn Gott vermag sie wiederum einzupfropfen.

Römer 11:23 Meaning and Commentary

Romans 11:23

And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief
The apostle suggests that the Jews also might be recovered and brought into a Gospel church state, provided they did not continue in infidelity; but inasmuch as they seem to lie under invincible ignorance, obstinacy, and unbelief, and were such bitter enemies to the Gospel, and abhorrers of Gospel ordinances, and a Gospel church state; yea, that they must and will abide in unbelief, unless the Spirit of God convinces them of it, and it is given to them to believe in Christ, and they are powerfully drawn by the Father to come to the Son, there is no possibility or likelihood that they

shall be grafted in,
or taken into a Gospel church state; to which the apostle answers, and argues for their ingrafting, and the possibility of it from the power of God:

for God is able to graft them in again;
as many of them were in the times of the apostles, and some since, for nothing is impossible with God; he can remove their unbelief, knock off the shackles and fetters in which they are held, and bring, them out of the prison of infidelity, in which they are shut up; he is able to take away the blindness of their minds, and the hardness of their hearts, the veil that is over them, and turn them to the Lord; he can by his mighty power work faith in them, and cause them to look on him whom they have pierced, and mourn in an evangelical manner; he can bring them to Christ, and into his churches, and among his people, and fold them with the rest of his sheep; so that there one fold of Jew and Gentile, under one shepherd, Jesus Christ.

Römer 11:23 In-Context

21 denn wenn Gott der natürlichen Zweige nicht geschont hat, daß er auch deiner etwa nicht schonen werde.

22 Sieh nun die Güte und die Strenge Gottes: gegen die, welche gefallen sind, Strenge; gegen dich aber Güte Gottes, wenn du an der Güte bleibst; sonst wirst auch du ausgeschnitten werden.

23 Und auch jene, wenn sie nicht im Unglauben bleiben, werden eingepfropft werden; denn Gott vermag sie wiederum einzupfropfen.

24 Denn wenn du aus dem von Natur wilden Ölbaum ausgeschnitten und wider die Natur in den edlen Ölbaum eingepfropft worden bist, wieviel mehr werden diese, die natürlichen Zweige, in ihren eigenen Ölbaum eingepfropft werden!

25 Denn ich will nicht, Brüder, daß euch dieses Geheimnis unbekannt sei, auf daß ihr nicht euch selbst klug dünket: daß Verstockung Israel zum Teil widerfahren ist, bis die Vollzahl der Nationen eingegangen sein wird;