“Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.”
This does not, however, mean that God's word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. — The λόγος (logos, "word") of God has not fallen away (ἐκπίπτω, ekpiptō, "fallen away"); God's promises stand. Yet Paul introduces the distinction: descent (ἐξ Ἰσραήλ, ex Israelēl) is not identity. Not all biological offspring are the true Israel—a rupture between flesh and election.
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