11:25 For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, 2 so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel 3 until the full number 4 of the Gentiles has come in.
11:1 So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
1:18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn 5 from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things. 6
1 tn Or “(not to say too much)”; Grk “(not to burden you [with words]).”
2 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.
3 tn Or “Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.”
4 tn Grk “fullness.”
5 tn See the note on the term “firstborn” in 1:15. Here the reference to Jesus as the “firstborn from among the dead” seems to be arguing for a chronological priority, i.e., Jesus was the first to rise from the dead.
6 tn Grk “in order that he may become in all things, himself, first.”