“Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.”
You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in." — Paul anticipates the Gentile objection: our inclusion required their exclusion. This logic assumes a zero-sum game where Gentile gain requires Israel's loss, a tempting conclusion from the historical record.
Church Fathers on Romans 11:19
“You will say then,” he goes on, “The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” Again he establishes, by way of objection, the opposite to the former position, to show that what he said before, he had not said as directly belonging to the subject, but to draw them to him. For it was no longer by their fall that salvation came to the Gentiles, nor was it their fall that was the riches of the world. Nor was it by this that we were saved, because they had fallen,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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