“Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.”
so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of the mercy shown to you. — The symmetry completes: now Gentile mercy becomes the occasion (dia to hymōn eleos) for Israel's restoration. Just as Israel's no enabled Gentile yes, Gentile yes will ultimately enable Israel's yes. The plan moves through sequential disobediences toward universal mercy.
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