Thursday, April 18, 2024

The Glossa Ordinaria for Romans 11:27 and the then-future coming of Elijah

  

11:27 And this a testament from me to them, when I take away their sins.

 

when I take away. This will be at the end when the Jews shall be converted by the preaching of Elijah and Enoch. Thus Malachi: I will send you Elijah the Tishbite, who shall turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers (Mal. 4:5-6; Luke 1:17), so that the children might understand like their fathers, i.e., as the prophets understood.

 

And this—and this will be
a testament—or testimony; the promise shall be fulfilled
from me—because I myself shall do what I promised
I take away—I will forgive. (The Glossa Ordinaria on Romans [trans. Michael Scott Woodard; TEAMS Commentary Series; Kalamazoo, Mich.: Western Michigan University, 2011], 177)