“For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?”
After all, if you, who are by nature a wild olive shoot, were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree! — The rhetorical crescendo: if God performed the counter-natural grafting of Gentiles, how much more (polō mallon) will he restore the natural branches to their own tree? The return is less miraculous because it restores what was naturally there.
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