Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 9:6

6. Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel .

An Objection is here obviated: The Iews might object and say; If they were cast off and rejected, then God is unfaithful, and all his Promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, and their Seed, are ineffectual. To this he Answers by a Destinction of Israelites. Some are Israelites only, in respect of their Carnal Generation; and Others again, are true Israelites, Children of the Promise, and of the Faith of Abraham, vid. Chap. 2.28, 29. Now the Promises of God were made to the true Israelites, and in all such it is Effectual: And under the Name of Israel, or true Israelites, all those are comprehended, who imitate the Fai[illegible: 1 letter]h of Abraham, and walk in his Steps, whether they descended from him, by fleshly Generation or not: This he farther Asserts in the following Verse.

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