ACC ~ Romans 11 v20

ORIGEN: Who is the one from whom they have been broken off but he in whom they have not believed? COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

THAT THEY TOO MIGHT RETURN TO THEIR ROOTS. AMBROSIASTER: You ought to thank God for his gift in Christ and not insult them but rather pray that, if their wickedness has led to your salvation, they too might return to their roots. Then you will please God who has shown you mercy, for he called you so that by making them jealous of you he might bring them to grace as well. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

THEY IN EFFECT BROKE THEMSELVES OFF. CHRYSOSTOM: It was not God who cut them off but rather they broke themselves off and fell. … You see what a great thing man’s free choice is, how great the working of the mind is. For none of these things is immutable, neither your good nor their evil. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 19.

THE PURSUIT OF WISDOM NOT BROKEN OFF. PELAGIUS: Some interpreters, who do not understand this passage and do not consider the reason for which or the people to whom the apostle is speaking, think that the pursuit of wisdom is forbidden by this text. But if this is so Paul will seem to contradict himself in the eyes of these interpreters, since here he is forbidding what elsewhere he asks of the Lord, that the Ephesians and others may receive. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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