...their eyes, or understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them." Rom. xi. 7. " Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for ; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest are blinded." Now, who are those whose eyes are said to be blinded, and their hearts hardened ? They...

...the rest were blinded,e 8 (Aeeording as it is written,d God hath given them the spirit of .slumfier, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear) unto this day. 9 And David saith,e Let their table be made a snare; and a trap, and a stumblingbloek, and a reeompense...

...Rom. xi. 7 — 1O. that they -were blinded, and that God had given them the spirit of slumber, eyex that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear ; and he speaks of their table * Thus Rezir in lor. caffs them vessels, because, in creatures, they...

...all, whom God has not appointed to salvation, he has appointed to wrath. Again he says to the Romans, "Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained, and the rest were blinded. According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes...

...and his Christ. These men only have their backs bowed down alway, Rom. xi. 10. these men only have the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day, Eccles. viii. 10. Wherefore, as they go to the place of the Holy, so they come from...

...obtained that w Inch he seeketh for: but the elect4 have obtained it, and the rest have 8 been blinded: as it is written, " God hath given them the spirit...of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears 9 that they should not hear," even to this day. And David saith, " Let their table be made a snare,...

...Even so then at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace What then ? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for...election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded." Rom. xi. 5, 7. Here the elect, do not mean the nation of Israel, but those from among the nation who...

...Grace;" by which expression he means the body of Jewish Christians, as appears from a following verse, " Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for,...Election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded (u) ;" " the Election" therefore denotes those of the Jews who embraced the Gospel, and " the rest...

...unto them : the election hath obtained it, and the rest were "blinded 8 (According as it is written, c God hath given them the spirit of '' slumber, 'eyes...that they should not see, and ears that they should 1U B Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back ahvay. 1 1 I say, then,...

...at the time, when the nation was rejected. " God did not cast off his people whom " he foreknew." " Israel hath not obtained that which " he seeketh for;...the election hath obtained it, and " the rest were blinded."f Thus Isaiah: " Israel shall " be saved in the LORD, with an everlasting salvation: " ye...