“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.
Church Fathers on Romans 11:25
“For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise your own conceits.” Meaning by mystery here, that which is unknown and unutterable, and has much of wonder and much of what one should not expect about it. As in another passage too he says, “Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.” 1 Corinthians 15:51 What then is the mystery? “That blindness in part has happened unto Israel.” Here…
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