“God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,”
God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew — the proleptic knowledge (proegnō) points to God's election before time, resonating with chapters 8-9's themes of predestination. The foreknowing is not mere foresight but relational knowing, covenantal orientation. This recalls Psalm 94:14 to establish that rejection contradicts God's very nature and prior commitment.
Church Fathers on Romans 11:2
“He has not cast off His people, whom He foreknew.” As though he said, I have with me three, five, or ten thousand. What then? Has the people come to be three, five, or ten thousand? That seed that compared with the stars of heaven for multitude, or the sand of the sea? Is this the way you deceive us and put a cheat upon us, by making the whole people yourself and the few that are with you; and did you inflate us with idle hopes, and say that the promise has been fulfilled,…
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