“In the Epistle to the Galatians (6:16), the expression ‘the Israel of God’ has been generally interpreted as meaning the spiritual Israel, and as therefore giving countenance to the spiritualizing process by which the Old Testament predictions regarding Israel are robbed of all their peculiar and appropriate meaning. Now here, again, I should be inclined to suggest that the apostle may really be speaking of the literal Israel; and as throughout the whole epistle he has been contrasting and comparing the circumcision and the uncircumcision, the Jew and the Gentile, so here, he first prays for a blessing on the believing Gentiles, and then on the believing Jews.”

(Bonar, Horatius. 1847. Prophetical Landmarks; Containing Data for Helping to Determine the Question of Christ’s Pre-Millennial Advent. London: J. Nisbet & Co.)

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