“I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.”
"Has God rejected his people? By no means!" — Paul opens with emphatic denial (mē genoito), the rhetorical pivot that turns from chapters 1-11's theological arc toward the mystery of Israel's salvation. The question echoes Psalm 94:14 and establishes that God's covenant faithfulness cannot be severed by human unfaithfulness. Paul himself, an Israelite of Benjamin, embodies the remnant according to grace (legomai, remaining).
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