Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 11:15

15. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world ; what shall the receiving of them be , but life from the dead ?

This verse containes an Argument to prove the Calling of the Iewes; not a new one, but that repeated which you had before v. 12. the substance is the same, only the terms differ: there he spake of the Fall and diminishing of the Iewes, here, of their casting away; there it was the riches, here it is the reconciling of the World. q. d. If the rejection of the Iews brought great profit to the Gentiles, their Reception and Restauration will bring abundantly more.

i. e. An occasion of Preaching the Gospel to the Gentiles, by meanes of which, they were reconciled to God. The Gospel is the Ministery of Reconciliation, 2 Cor. 5.18, 19▪ 20.

into the favour of God and the bosome of the Church.

A proverbial Speech, to signify a great Change for the better. The Conversion of that People and Nation will strengthen the things that are languishing, and like to dye in the Christian Church. It will confirm the Faith of the Gentiles, and Reconcile all their Differences in Religion, and occasion a more thorow Reformation amongst them: there will be a much more happy and flourishing Estate of the Church, even such as shall be in the end of the World, at the Resurrection of the Dead.