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Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Concordia Theological Monthly

1941

St. paul

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All Israel Shall Be Saved, Rom. 11:26, V. Bartling Sep 1941

All Israel Shall Be Saved, Rom. 11:26, V. Bartling

Concordia Theological Monthly

"All Israel shall be saved." What do these words mean? The sentence must not be isolated from its context and given a meaning which collides with what precedes and follows. Paul's letters have had to submit to torture since Peter's days (2 Pet. 3:16). The history of the interpretation of our particular passage along with its setting illustrates such exegetical torture. Again and again Paul's words have been manhandled and wrested from their context.

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