Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 11:24

24. For if thou wert cut out of the olive-tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive-tree; how much more shall these which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive-tree ?

He here shews the Probability, as well as Possibility of the Iews Conversion; because God hath done that which is more unlikely. q. d. If the Gentiles, which were a kind of wild Olive branches, were graffed into a good Olive tree, the Church of God, which is contrary to Nature, seeing Men use to graff a good Cion into a wild stock (as an Apple into a Crab) and not a wild Cion into a good Stock; how much more shall the Iews, which are the natural branches; yea, branches of that Olive-tree, into which the Gentiles are now Engraffed; be graffed into their own Olive-tree, to which formerly they did belong: According to the Custom of graffing, which was common amongst them, to graff one tree upon another, of the same kind; and grounded on Levit. 19.19.

Marginal references: Or, [illegible: 1 word] off [illegible: 1 word] the Olive [illegible: 1 word], which is [illegible: 1 word] to thee.; Or, these [illegible: 1 word] are [illegible: 1 word] to [illegible: 1 word].