Romans 11:17 (WEB)
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,
Catechism · 2
The Revelation of God
“They would be the root on to which the Gentiles would be grafted, once they came to believe.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 11:17-18, 24.
The Church in God's Plan
“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 · 15
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And therefore it was that Paul said, “For if [God] spared not the natural branches, [take heed] lest He also spare not thee, who, when thou wert a wild olive tree, wert grafted into the fatness of the olive tree, and wert made a partaker of its fatness.”” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 17, 21.
Read the whole comment““But thou, being a wild olive-tree,” he says, “hast been grafted into the good olive-tree, and been made a partaker of the fatness of the olive-tree.”” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 17.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
“(Rom. 11:17.)” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“The natural branches were broken off that the humble wild olive tree might be grafted in.” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 17.
Read the whole comment“Not one man speaketh, but that olive fruit-bearing, whence have been pruned the proud branches, and the humble wild olive graffed in.” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 17.
Read the whole comment““For if thou,” he saith, “being cut out of the natural wild olive, hast been graffed in among them, do not boast against the branches: for if thou boastest, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee.”” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 17, 18.
Read the whole comment“Because they were cut off from the wild olive, and engraffed into the good olive.” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 17.
Read the whole comment“…that greater gift which they have received, to despise, in comparison of themselves, the fathers and mothers of the People of God; and not to think those men, (whom the Apostle sets forth as the olive, that the engrafted wild olive be not proud,) who did service to Christ about to come hereafter, even by the…” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 17, 18
Read the whole comment“For whose mercy can be mentioned as being so great as His, who pardons all the sins of those who return, and makes the wild olive a partaker of the fatness of the olive? and whose severity as being so great as His, who spared not the natural branches, but broke them off because of unbelief?” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 17–24.
Read the whole comment“So says the Apostle, “that the wild olive tree is grafted into the good olive tree, but the natural branches are broken off.”” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 17, etc.
Read the whole comment“He disinherited the former, He adopted the latter; and from that olive tree whose root is in the patriarchs, He cut off the proud natural branches, and engrafted the lowly wild olive.” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 17.
Read the whole comment“…people of God than that seed of Abraham, they would, had they only acknowledged and received Christ, have remained as the natural branches in the olive tree; nor would the churches of Christ have been different from the synagogues of the Jews, for they would have been one and the same, had they also desired to abide…” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 17.
Read the whole comment“For this reason, because it was the wild olive tree that was made partaker of the fatness of the olive tree, and not the olive tree that was made partaker of the bitterness of the wild olive tree.” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 17.
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John Chrysostom
“So also, when he was admonishing those of the Gentiles, in his Epistle to the Romans, not to be highminded against the Jews, he brought forward also the wild olive, and he seems to be saying one thing to these, another to those.” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 17.
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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 · 19
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 42.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.14.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Bede on Luke 1:30–33 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 1:30–33 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §60.
Cited together in Catechism §60.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.10.