“And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;”
If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root — Paul introduces the grafting metaphor with unusual botanical detail: a wild olive (agrielaios, uncultivated) grafted into a cultivated tree. The pagan Gentiles are grafted into Israel's covenant, sharing in the sap (chrisma, perhaps anointing, blessing) from the patriarchal root.
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