Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 11:7

7. What then ? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for ; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded .

q. d. My Discourse comes to this, or this is the Sum of it.

i. e. The Body of the Iewish Nation, seeking righteousness and life by the works of the law, have not obtained it, or they have not hit the Mark; they Aimed at it, but they Shot wide; they took a great deal of Pains, to little or no purpose, vid. chap. 9.31.

i. e. The Elect; the Abstract for the Concrete; so before, Circumcision for the Circumcised.

i. e. Those who are not Elected; they are left by God's just Judgment to their own Ignorance and Obdurateness: As also to Satan, who doth increase it in them, 2 Cor. 4.4. The Antithesis requires, that he should have said, The rest have not obtained; but he speaks this of purpose, to shew the Cause of their not Obtaining, i. e. Their own blindness of mind, and hardness of heart.

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