Romanos 11:7

Romans 11:7-10 summarize the argument (Romans 11:7) with supporting Old Testament quotations (Romans 11:8-10). Romans 11:7 ties back to Romans 10:3.

The Greek word translated "hardened" (eporothesan) is not the same one Paul used in Romans 9:18 (sklerunei). The one he used in Romans 9:18 simply pictures a hardening. The one he used here describes hardening with the result that the hardness renders the person more difficult to get through to from then on. It is as though a callus built up over the Israelites that made them less sensitive to God. [Note: H. P. Liddon, Explanatory Analysis of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, pp. 199-200.]

". . . God’s hardening permanently binds people in the sin that they have chosen for themselves." [Note: Moo, p. 681.]

"This postponement in Israelite history is not so much an interruption of redemption as an extension of predicted hardening (Romans 11:7-10). The Exile, which was a punishment for national disobedience, has therefore been prolonged during the present age until the appointed time for Israel’s national (and spiritual) restoration (Acts 1:7; Acts 3:21; Romans 11:25-27)." [Note: J. Randall Price, "Prophetic Postponement in Daniel 9 and Other Texts," in Issues in Dispensationalism, p. 136.]