ACC ~ Romans 11 v12

THEIR FAILURE MEANS RICHES FOR THE GENTILES. ORIGEN: Consider the wisdom of God in this. For with him not even sins and lapses are wasted, but whenever someone rejects freedom of his own accord, the dispensation of divine wisdom makes others rich by using the very failing by which they have become poor. . . .

Now indeed, until all the Gentiles come to salvation the riches of God are concentrated in the multitude of believers, but as long as Israel remains in its unbelief it will not be possible to say that the fullness of the Lord’s portion has been attained. The people of Israel are still missing from the complete picture. But when the fullness of the Gentiles has come in and Israel comes to salvation at the end of time, then it will be the people which, although it existed long ago, will come at the last and complete the fullness of the Lord’s portion and inheritance. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

THEIR FULL INCLUSION. AMBROSIASTER: It is clear that the world will be even richer in good people if those who have been blinded are converted. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

CONSOLATION IN DISTRESS. CHRYSOSTOM: Even if the Jews had fallen a thousand times, the Gentiles would not have been saved unless they had shown faith. Likewise, the Jews would not have perished unless they had been unbelieving and disputatious. Here Paul is consoling the Jews in their distress, giving them reason to be confident of their salvation if they were to change. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 19.

GENTILES SHOULD NOT LOOK DOWN UPON JEWS. [PSEUDO-]CONSTANTIUS: Writing to the Romans, the apostle warns the Gentiles not to look down on the Jews, because a remnant of them will be saved in the future. THE HOLY LETTER OF ST. PAUL TO THE ROMANS.

JEWS CAN BENEFIT GENTILES. PELAGIUS: If the transgression of the Jews benefitted you to the extent that without the works of the law you were made coheirs with them, and if the few Jews who believed called all of you to salvation, how much more could they benefit you with instruction if they all believed! PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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