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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Graff, Graft
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
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denotes "to graft" in (en, in, kentrizo, to graft), to insert a slip of a cultivated tree into a wild one. In Romans 11:17,19,23,24 , however, the metaphor is used "contrary to nature" (ver. 24), of grafting a wild olive branch (the Gentile) into the good olive tree (the Jews); that unbelieving Jews (branches of the good tree) were broken off that Gentiles might be grafted in, afforded no occasion for glorying on the part of the latter. Jew and Gentile alike must enjoy the Divine blessings by faith alone. So Jews who abide not in unbelief shall, as "the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree."
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Graff, Graft'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​g/graff-graft.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Graff, Graft'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​g/graff-graft.html. 1940.