# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1859_S321
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Lehre und Wehre. (Doctrine and Defense.)

Volume V. November 1859. No. 11.

Is a Still-Awaited Solemn Conversion of the Jews Taught in Romans 11:25, 26, 27?

(Conclusion.)

The same is the case with that passage, Rom. 11:25-27. For if even some orthodox teachers have been of the opinion that a still-awaited solemn conversion of the Jews is taught in this passage, this too has its ground simply in the fact that they have not looked closely and carefully at the words of this text, and have let themselves be guided by the first impression that a more superficial consideration of it made upon them. For as soon as one pays sharp attention to every word of the text, one sees that the doctrine of a still-to-be-hoped-for solemn conversion of the Jews is not only not necessarily contained in it — which would have to be the case if a Christian article of faith or hope were to be grounded on it — but that this doctrine cannot even possibly be proved from it. This, then, is what we shall attempt to prove in what follows.

The words with which we have to deal here are these:

"For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins."

Many, when they have read these words, at once exclaim: What could be clearer than that a solemn conversion of the Jews is here taught, shortly before the Last Day? Does it not stand here in words as clear as the sun, that all Israel shall be saved? But since this has manifestly not yet happened, is it not therefore necessarily still to be expected, unless one would otherwise make God's Word a lie? — We answer:

I. Those who, on the basis of our passage, hold that a still-awaited