“For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.”
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters: A hardening in part has come to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved. — The mystery (mystērion) is revealed: hardening is partial (apo merous, in part, not total), temporary (achri hou, until), and purposive. The pleroma (fullness, complete number) of Gentiles must enter; then Israel's salvation follows. The eschaton depends on the Gentile mission's completion.
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