1. Therefore, I say: Has God driven away his people? Let it not be so! For I, too, am an Israelite of the offspring of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
2. God has not driven away his people, whom he foreknew. And do you not know what Scripture says in Elijah, how he calls upon God against Israel?
3. "Lord, they have slain your Prophets. They have overturned your altars. And I alone remain, and they are seeking my life."
4. But what is the Divine response to him? "I have retained for myself seven thousand men, who have not bent their knees before Baal."
5. Therefore, in the same way, again in this time, there is a remnant that has been saved in accord with the choice of grace.