Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 11:17

17. And if some of the branches be broken off , and thou being a wild olive tree , were graffed in amongst them , and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree .

In this, and some following Verses, the Apostle digresseth a little, and takes occasion to prevent the Insulting of the Gentiles over the Iews; as also to perswade them to take Warning by their Example.

The unbelieving Iews.

A believing Gentile: Though he speaks as to a particular Person, yet he means the whole Body of the believing Gentiles.

A Cion taken from a wild Olive tree. i. e. From the heathenish and unbelieving World.

The believing Iews. Some Read for them, or in the place of the branches, that are broken off.

By the Root he means Abraham, &c. as before: By the Olive tree, he means the Church of Christ; by the Root, or Sap of the Root, and by the Fatness of the Olive tree, he means, All the Promises and Priviledges, the Graces and Ordinances, the spiritual Blessings and Benefits, which belonged to Abraham and his Seed, or to the true Church of God.

Marginal references: Or, but if.; Jer. 11.16.; Or, a wild [illegible: 1 letter]live branch.; Or, for them.