“For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.”
If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches. — Paul shifts to the olive tree image with preparatory metaphors from Numbers 15:20-21 (the firstfruits dough). The logic: holiness of the first consecrates the whole. The root (Abraham, the patriarchs) is holy, so the branches retain sanctification even amid current hardening.
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