Romans 11:18

The Revelation of God

• §60Article 1 · The Revelation of GodRead at vatican.va

  “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

• §755Paragraph 1 · The Church in God's PlanRead at vatican.va

  “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.

Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 73

  ““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.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Of Holy Virginity Chapter 1

  “…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

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• Augustine of Hippo, On the Sermon on the Mount II.14Book II

  “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.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 8

  “…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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• 1 Corinthians 7:9

  Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 1.

• Wisdom 1:1

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.14.

• Sirach 5:5

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.14.

• Sirach 5:6

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.14.

• Matthew 19:12

  Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 1.

• John 10:16

  Cited together in Catechism §60.

• John 11:52

  Cited together in Catechism §60.

• John 12:31

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.14.

• John 14:30

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.14.

• Romans 2:4

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.14.