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CHAPTER 11.
1 I SAY then: Hath God cast away his people? God
forbid. For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of
Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew.
Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias; how he calleth on God against
Israel?
3 Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug
down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what saith the divine answer to him? I have
left me seven thousand men, that have not bowed their knees to Baal.
5 Even so then at this present time also, there is a
remnant saved according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise
grace is no more grace.
7 What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not
obtained: but the election hath obtained it; and the rest have been blinded.
8 As it is written: God hath given them the spirit
of insensibility; eyes that they should not see; and ears that they should not
hear, until this present day.
9 And David saith: Let their table be made a snare,
and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them.
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not
see: and bow down their back always.
11 I say then, have they so stumbled, that they should fall?
God forbid. But by their offence, salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they
may be emulous of them.
12 Now if the offence of them be the riches of the
world, and the diminution of them, the riches of the Gentiles; how much more the
fulness of them?
13 For I say to you, Gentiles: as long indeed as I am
the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry,
14 If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them
who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
15 For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the
world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also:
and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken, and thou,
being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them, and art made partaker of the root,
and of the fatness of the olive tree,
18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast,
thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off,
that I might be grafted in.
20 Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But
thou standest by faith: be not highminded, but fear.
21 For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear
lest perhaps he also spare not thee.
22 See then the goodness and the severity of God:
towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the
goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut
off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief,
shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive tree,
which is natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, were grafted into the good
olive tree; how much more shall they that are the natural branches, be grafted
into their own olive tree?
25 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this
mystery, (lest you should be wise in your own conceits), that blindness in part
has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in.
26 And so all Israel should be saved, as it is written:
There shall come out of Sion, he that shall deliver, and shall turn away
ungodliness from Jacob.
27 And this is to them my covenant: when I shall
take away their sins.
28 As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies
for your sake: but as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of
the fathers.
29 For the gifts and the calling of God are without
repentance.
30 For as you also in times past did not believe God,
but now have obtained mercy, through their unbelief;
31 So these also now have not believed, for your mercy,
that they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may
have mercy on all.
33 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the
knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable
his ways!
34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath
been his counsellor?
35 Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall
be made him?
36 For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things:
to him be glory for ever. Amen.
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