1. I say then, Hath God cast away his people? By no means. 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 ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
3. Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4. But what saith the answer of God to him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
5. Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6. And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7. What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8. (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) to this day.
9. And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them:
10. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.
11. I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means: but rather through their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.