Romanos 11
Augustine of Hippo · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Romanos 11:1
This refers to what Paul said above. Only those Jews who have believed in the Lord will be counted as descendants. — AUGUSTINE ON ROMANS 69
Romanos 11:2
Predestination is sometimes designated by the name of foreknowledge, as here, where "he foreknew" can only mean "he predestined," as the context of what follows demonstrates. — GIFT OF PERSEVERANCE 17.47
Romanos 11:5
The election of which the apostle speaks is according to grace, not merit. — PREDESTINATION OF THE SAINTS 16.33
Romanos 11:5
The "remnant" refers to the Jews who have believed in Christ. Many of them did believe in the days of the apostles, and even today there are some converts, though very few. — City of God 17.5
Romanos 11:6
Grace is given not because we have done good works but in order that we may have power to do them, not because we have fulfilled the law but in order that we may be able to fulfill it. — THE SPIRIT AND THE LETTER 16.10
Romanos 11:10
Behold mercy and judgment—mercy on the elect, who have obtained the righteousness of God, but judgment upon the others who have been blinded. And yet the former have believed because they willed it, while the latter have not believed because they have not willed it. Hence mercy and judgment were executed in their own wills. — PREDESTINATION OF THE SAINTS 6.11
Romanos 11:11
Paul says that the Jews have not fallen but rather that their fall was not pointless, since it led to the salvation of the Gentiles. The Jews did not sin only to fall as a punishment but so that their fall might serve the salvation of the Gentiles. Paul even begins to praise the Jewish people for this fall of unbelief, in order that the Gentiles should not become proud, seeing that the fall of the Jews was so important for their own salvation. On the contrary, the Gentiles ought to be all the more careful, lest they too should grow proud and fall also. — AUGUSTINE ON ROMANS 70
Romanos 11:26
Not all the Jews were blind; some of them recognized Christ. But the fullness of the Gentiles comes in among those who have been called according to the plan, and there arises a truer Israel of God … the elect from both the Jews and the Gentiles. — LETTER 149
Romanos 11:29
For God to order his future works in his foreknowledge, which cannot be deceived or changed, is entirely (and nothing other than) to predestine. But just as he whom God has foreknown to be chaste, although this may be unclear to him, acts in such a way as to be chaste, so he whom God has predestined to be chaste, although this may be unclear to him, does not, simply because he hears that by God's gift he will be what he will be, fail to act so as to be chaste. Indeed, his charity is delighted, and he is not puffed up as if he had not received it. Not only is he not hindered from the work of charity by the preaching of predestination, but on the contrary he is helped in this task, so that when he glories he may glory in the Lord. — GIFT OF PERSEVERANCE 17
Romanos 11:32
The apostle did not mean by these words that God would not condemn anybody. What he meant is made clear by the context. Paul was speaking about those Jews who would one day believe. — City of God 21.24
Romanos 11:36
Paul is referring to the Trinity when he says this. — On Faith and the Creed 16