Saving Faith (4)

And once more, the same truth is also expressed inRomans 11 with regard to the relation between the Gentiles and Israel. There the apostle writes, vss. 15, ff.: "For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and...