The pronominal reference “you” is again made explicit: you Gentiles; and the implied agent of the passive verb (literally “you were mercied”) is also made explicit: you have received God’s mercy. Finally, the noun phrase (“by the disobedience of these”) is changed to a verb phrase, with the pronominal reference explicit: because the Jews disobeyed.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on Paul’s Letter to the Romans. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1973. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .