...Gentiles, how much more their fulness ? For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead ? For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, that blindness, in part, is happened...

...whole will hereafter be holy. In the sixteenth verse we read, " If the firstfruit be holy, the lamp is also holy : and if the root be holy, so are the branches." But not only does this election show that there is a restoration for Israel, but also the blindness...

...one for whose advent they had been longing. It is to this remnant that Paul refers when he writes, "If the first-fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. ' ' Paul likens the remnant in Israel to a noble olivetree, some of whose branches have been broken...

...there not a remarkable relationship, of which Paul speaks in Romans 11:16, "For if the firstfruits be holy, the lump is also holy, and if the root be holy, so are the branches" ? If the beginning is there, is there not an earnest ; and if there is an earnest, is there not a guarantee?...

...flesh, and might save some of them. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, 劁 "2 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among...

...them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be. but life from the dead? 16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. 17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among...

...be the reconciling of the world, what »hall the receiving o/ them be, but life from the dead Г 16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy, and if the root 6e holy, so Qi'6 the ЪгяпсЬгц. 17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thon, being...

...became in the same sense, holy. Their children were holy; so were their wives. "If the first-fruits be holy, the lump is also holy ; and if the root be holy, so are also the branches," Rom. 11, 16. That is, if the parents be holy, so arc also the children. Any child,...

...and the Law is dead unto him." I. III. Ye descend from God : but from God descends no unclean thing. For if the first-fruit be holy, the lump is also holy ; and if the root be holy, so also are the branches. Righteous therefore also is man's flesh and blood, and no unrighteousness can...

...links the image of the stem and branches in the previous stanza with the image of lumps in Rom. 11:16, "For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches." The next metaphor, the "Gem made up of all their shine," is more difficult to trace to a specific source...