“For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.” -Romans 11:29
Paul affirms the validity of the covenant promise to (remnant or believing) Israel by use of a merism, a kind of trope called a synecdoche. A merism is a rhetorical device (or figure of speech) in which a combination of two (usually contrasting) parts of the whole refer to the whole. A…
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