He is saying that Jews are always to be part of God’s faithful family and that God can and will bring “some of them” to that faith.46 But the point, as throughout Romans, is the faithfulness of God. God has been loyal to what he had promised. The messianic pattern now etched into history shows that “God has shut up all people in disobedience, so that he may have mercy upon all.”47 If the Roman church can hold on to that, they will be able to live with the true messianic mystery.
