The object of this chapter, as of the preceding and of the one which follows, is to set forth the truth in reference to the rejection of the Jews as the peculiar people of God, and the extension to all nations of the offers of salvation. The first verses are again, as those at the beginning of ch. 9, introductory and conciliatory, setting forth the ground of the rejection of the Jews, vs. 1 — 4. The next section contains an exhibition
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