11:32
“For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that He may have mercy on them all”. The “everyone” here means every people group, it is not grounds for supporting universalism. We are all in the same boat, Jew or Gentile. We have all sinned against God, and we can all receive mercy if we believe in Christ. There is no difference.
11:33
Paul closes this section with the doxology, a paean of praise to the Lord. This could apply to what has been said in chapters 9-11, or to the whole of what has gone before. The essence of it is that God’s plans are beyond our working out, and are infinitely more wonderful than anything we could come up with or imagine. We should believe what God has done, and what He is going to do, but our ultimate faith should be in who God is. There are many times when we cannot work out what He is doing, but we can always be confident that His plans are good. No man could have worked out how God was going to save the world, or save Israel.
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