Romans 11:14 (WEB)
if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
Catechism · 1
“Yet the true vine is Christ who gives life and fruitfulness to the branches, that is, to us, who through the Church remain in Christ, without whom we can do nothing.” — Catechism footnote: LG 6; Cf. 1 Cor 39; Rom 11:13-26; Mt 21:32-43 and parallels; Isa 51-7; Jn 15:1-5.
Fathers and councils · 3
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X IV.10Conference IV
“Sometimes it stands for consanguinity and relationship, as here: “Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh,” and the Apostle says: “If by any means I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh, and save some of them.”” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 14.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But even such physicians, even though they cure not by their own power (as not even of their own do those of the body), yet so far forth as by faithful ministry they assist towards salvation, can cure the living, but not raise the dead: of whom it is said, “Dost Thou show wonders among the dead?”” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 14.
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Tertullian
“…to grieve, at the restoration of Israel, if it be true, (as it is), that the whole of our hope is intimately united with the remaining expectation of Israel.” — editor's note: Comp. Rom. xi. 11–36.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in Conferences I–X IV.10.
Cited together in Conferences I–X IV.10.
Cited together in Conferences I–X IV.10.
Cited together in Conferences I–X IV.10.
Cited together in Conferences I–X IV.10.
Cited together in Conferences I–X IV.10.
Cited together in Conferences I–X IV.10.