Thanks. I do remember reading from Matthew Henry’s commentary in Romans 11 that he believed in a future salvation of the Jews.
Romans is quite clear, all of it should be studied.
It answers virtually all of the questions most often posed regarding Jews and Israel in light of the New Testament.
Of course, then, we know that when we err in our doctrine in this regard we are evidencing our lack of study of that book.
Oh, how joyful the doctrine presented in Romans.
Regarding the Apostle Paul’s Epistle to the Romans...
But of course, without someone to point out the vast wealth of references made to the prophets of the Old Testament, David, the Psalms, etc., etc., etc. then the bulk and and essence of Romans is not revealed to the reader.
The Reformation gradually got back to a much better understanding of Scripture, even as various sects wandered away from the truth and broke away. I think Henry’s Commentary captures a lot of this understanding.
Certainly, one must be very careful in selecting sources from the Reformation time period (one I saw you quoted was a lawyer) and going forward.
From the days of the Pilgrims and lasting for a few generations, the gains of the Reformation were continued here, and civil government in New England was dominated by people who were part of or respectful to Reformed doctrine and cultural views (for example, Christmas and Easter were not observed in many towns - but the Lord’s Day, the Christian Sabbath, was). But gradually the immigrant mix to America changed to include far more non-Reformed, and by the 1700’s the stage was being set for the radical departures of the 1800’s.
One must bear in mind that in Great Britain, the forebearers of today’s new world order, the financiers, were already actively planning and implementing their “corruption from within” plans for churches, education, the business community, governments, the arts, etc. Just as in the financial world, scholars in the employ of the “big finance” of the day were writing the tomes that we see as the basis for “capitalism”, religious scholars - and others - in the employ of those same financiers were hard at work undermining true religion, and creating the “enlightenment”, an intellectual hearkening back to pagan Greece and Rome.
When one researches notable individuals of 16th and 17th century Europe, it is utterly amazing how so many of their bios wind up pointing back to the banking families and “big finance” of the day, either by birth, education, marriage, employment, mentor, protege, etc. It’s shocking, I’ve found enough to “get the idea” that the leadership of Europe, the aristocracy, became completely interwined with ancient banking families, and this followed right across “the pond” to America, sans aristocracy.