96 The Future of Israel. CHAP. 



whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have 

 eternal life. For God sent not the Son into the 

 world to condemn the world ; but that the world 

 should be saved through Him." 1 That is to say, 

 salvation and eternal life are to be conferred first on 

 the elect, the believers of the present dispensation, 

 but ultimately on the entire world of men. 



I have next to quote from that very remarkable 

 passage towards the end of the Epistle to the 

 Romans, where Saint Paul speaks of the future of 

 Israel and its effect on the destiny of the entire human 

 race. 



"Did they (of Israel) stumble that they might 

 fall 1 ? God forbid; but by their fall salvation is 

 come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them (of 

 Israel) to jealousy. Now if their fall is the riches of 

 the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles, 

 how much more their fulness I . . . 



" For if the casting away of them is the recon- 

 ciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them 

 be but life from the dead ? And if the firstfruit is 

 holy, so is the lump ; and if the root is holy, so are 

 the branches. . . . 



" A hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until 

 the fulness of the Gentiles be come in ; and so all 

 Israel shall be saved. ... As touching the Gospel 

 they (of Israel) are enemies for your sake; but as 

 touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' 

 1 John iii. 16 17. 



