Berean BlueApp preview

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Romans 11:32

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible. Browse this work.

Romans11:32

32. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief--"hath shut them all up to unbelief"

that he might have mercy upon all--that is, those "all" of whom he had been discoursing; the Gentiles first, and after them the Jews [Fritzsche, Tholuck, Olshausen, De Wette, Philippi, Stuart, Hodge]. Certainly it is not "all mankind individually" [Meyer, Alford]; for the apostle is not here dealing with individuals, but with those great divisions of mankind, Jew and Gentile. And what he here says is that God's purpose was to shut each of these divisions of men to the experience first of an humbled, condemned state, without Christ, and then to the experience of His mercy in Christ.

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Romans 11:32. Public domain.

Permanent link. Source edition.

Read Romans 11. Compare commentaries on this chapter.

Source and publication rights

Public domain. Public Domain. Source edition.

Berean Blue opens December 1, 2026. Explore this passage in the app preview.