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I. WHEREIN IT CONSISTS — the prospect of restoration to the privileges of God's people.

II. WHEREON IT DEPENDS.

1. The power of promise of God.

2. Suspended in faith.

III. HOW IT IS CONFIRMED.

1. By the calling of the Gentiles.

(1)  Once not a people.

(2)  Now raised to loftier privileges than the Jews ever possessed.

2. How much more, etc. (ver. 24).

IV. WHAT FEELINGS THIS HOPE SHOULD AWAKEN IN US. Zeal and prayer for the Jew that he may —

1. Relinquish his false hopes.

2. Embrace Christ in faith,

3. Become united with the living Church of God.

(J. Lyth, D. D.)

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KJV: And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

WEB: But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;