“For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.”
— WEB
Romans 11:32
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.”
— KJV
“For God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.”
— ASV
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Commentary
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief--"hath shut them all up to unbelief" that he might have mercy upon all--that is, those "all" of whom he had been discoursing; the Gentiles first, and after them the Jews [FRITZSCHE, THOLUCK, OLSHAUSEN, DE WETTE, PHILIPPI, STUART, HODGE]. Certainly it is not "all mankind individually" [MEYER, ALFORD]; for the apostle is not here dealing with individuals, but with those great divisions of mankind, Jew and Gentile. And what he here says is that God's purpose was to shut each of these divisions of men to the experience first of an humbled, condemned state, without Christ, and then to the experience of His mercy in Christ.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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