Romans 11:12

Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

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WEBBE

Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!

BSB

But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!

KJV

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?

ASV

Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

BBE

Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?

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εἰ ei If G1487 δὲ de however G1161 τὸ to the G3588 παράπτωμα paraptōma trespass G3900 αὐτῶν autōn of them G846 πλοῦτος ploutos [is] riches G4149 κόσμου kosmou of [the] world G2889 καὶ kai and G2532 τὸ to the G3588 ἥττημα hēttēma failure G2275 αὐτῶν autōn of them G846 πλοῦτος ploutos [is the] riches G4149 ἐθνῶν ethnōn of [the] Gentiles G1484 πόσῳ posō how much G4214 μᾶλλον mallon more G3123 τὸ to the G3588 πλήρωμα plērōma fullness G4138 αὐτῶν;¶ autōn of them G846

The early church

"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?" Here he is speaking to gratify them. For even if these had fallen a thousand times, the Gentiles would not have been saved unless they had shown faith. As the Jews likewise would not have perished unless they had been unbelieving and disputatious. But as I said, he is solacing them now they are laid low, giving them so much the more ground to be confident of their salvation if they altered. For if when they stumbled, he says, so many enjoyed salvation, and when they were cast out so many were called, just consider what will be the case when they return. But he does not put it thus, When they return. Now he does not say "how much more their" return, or their altering, or their well-doing, but "how much more their fulness," that is, when they are all about coming in. And this he said to show that then also grace and God's gift will do the larger part, or almost the whole.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Romans

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 11–21

The gospel is the greatest riches of every place where it is. As 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 resurrection of the dead in sin to a life of righteousness. Abraham was as the root of the church. The Jews continued branches of this tree till, as a nation, they rejected the Messiah; after that, their relation to Abraham and to God was, as it were, cut off. The Gentiles were grafted into this tree in their room; being admitted into the church of God. Multitudes were made heirs of Abraham's faith, holiness and 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 good 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, had been grafted in to share advantages. They ought therefore to beware of self-confidence, and every kind of pride or ambition; lest, having only a dead faith, and an empty profession, they should turn from God, and forfeit their privileges. If we stand at all, it is by faith; we are guilty and helpless in ourselves, and are to be humble, watchful, afraid of self-deception, or of being overcome by temptation. Not only are we at first justified by faith, but kept to the end in that justified state by faith only; yet, by a faith which is not alone, but which worketh by love to God and man.

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