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CHAPTER 9.
1 I SPEAK the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience
bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost:
2 That I have great sadness, and continual sorrow in my
heart.
3 For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ,
for my brethren, who are my kinsmen according to the flesh,
4 Who are Israelites, to whom belongeth the adoption as
of children, and the glory, and the testament, and the giving of the law, and
the service of God, and the promises:
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ,
according to the flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen.
6 Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For
all are not Israelites that are of Israel:
7 Neither are all they that are the seed of Abraham,
children; but in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
8 That is to say, not they that are the children of the
flesh, are the children of God; but they, that are the children of the promise,
are accounted for the seed.
9 For this is the word of promise: According to this
time will I come; and Sara shall have a son.
10 And not only she. But when Rebecca also had
conceived at once, of Isaac our father.
11 For when the children were not yet born, nor
had done any good or evil (that the purpose of God, according to election,
might stand,)
12 Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said
to her: The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written: Jacob I have loved, but Esau I
have hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God?
God forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom
I will have mercy; and I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him
that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
17 For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this
purpose have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and that my name
may be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will; and whom he
will, he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find
fault? for who resisteth his will?
20 O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall
the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the
same lump, to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make
his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for
destruction,
23 That he might shew the riches of his glory on the
vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared unto glory?
24 Even us, whom also he hath called, nor only of the
Jews, but also of the Gentiles.
25 As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was
not my people, my people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that
had not obtained mercy, one that hath obtained mercy.
26 And it shall be, in the place where it was said
unto them, You are not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the
living God.
27 And Isaias crieth out concerning Israel: If the
number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be
saved.
28 For he shall finish his word, and cut it short in
justice; because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.
29 And as Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of
Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom, and we had been like
unto Gomorrha.
30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who
followed not after justice, have attained to justice, even the justice that is
of faith.
31 But Israel, by following after the law of justice,
is not come unto the law of justice.
32 Why so? Because they sought it not by faith,
but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.
33 As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a
stumblingstone and a rock of scandal; and whosoever believeth in him shall not
be confounded.
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