Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 11:28

28. As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers sakes .

Here an Objection is obviated; the Gentiles might Object and say, The Iews can never return and be Saved; forasmuch as they have rejected the Gospel, and are therefore hated of God. To this he Answers by way of Concession, that it was true indeed, They had rejected the Gospel, and for this they were rejected and hated of God; but this hapned well to the Gentiles, and was to their Advantage; for the Iews refusal of the Gospel, brought it sooner to them (vid. ver. 11.) Or else the meaning is, They are Enemies of God, and of his Gospel; and the rather reject it, because you Gentiles embrace it: They think the worse of the Gospel, because you believe and profess it. Then he adds by way of Correction, That they were not yet in such desperate Circumstances; but in regard of Election, they are beloved for the Fathers sakes. By Election, he means, Either God's Choosing them to eternal Life: Or rather, His Choosing that Nation and People, above all other Nations and People of the World, to be his peculiar People. vid. Deut. 7.6. Psal. 135.4. Act. 13.46. And by God's Love to them, he means, His Love of good Will, which He had to that People still, for their Fathers sakes: Not because of the Merit of their Fathers, but because of the Covenant made with their Fathers; because they are Descended of those Fathers, to whom God had Promised, That He would be their God, and the God of their Seed after them; Aye, and of their Seeds Seed for ever; which Promises of God, the infidelity of many of them, can't wholly frustrate.