Romans 11:24 (WEB)
For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own 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 · 4
Cyril of Jerusalem
“Thou art transplanted henceforth among the spiritual olive-trees, being grafted from the wild into the good olive-tree, from sins into righteousness, from pollutions into purity.” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 24.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…“If thou hast been cut out of the natural wild olive and against nature hast been graffed into a good olive, do not boast,” he saith, “against the branches.”…” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 24, 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.
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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 · 8
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 On the Sermon on the Mount II.14.
Cited together in Catechism §60.
Cited together in Catechism §60.
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 On the Sermon on the Mount II.14.