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11 I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For *I* also am an Israelite, of [the] seed of Abraham, of [the] tribe of Benjamin.

God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in [the history of] Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and *I* have been left alone, and they seek my life.

But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed knee to Baal.

Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace.

But if by grace, no longer of works: since [otherwise] grace is no more grace.

What [is it] then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,

according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day.

And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:

10 let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway.

11 I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall [there is] salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.

12 But if their fall [be the] world's wealth, and their loss [the] wealth of [the] nations, how much rather their fulness?

13 For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as *I* am apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;

14 if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy [them which are] my flesh, and shall save some from among them.

15 For if their casting away [be the] world's reconciliation, what [their] reception but life from among [the] dead?

16 Now if the first-fruit [be] holy, the lump also; and if the root [be] holy, the branches also.

17 Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and *thou*, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

18 boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, [it is] not *thou* bearest the root, but the root thee.

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