6. and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work.
7. What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,
8. according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' --unto this very day,
9. and David saith, `Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them;
10. let their eyes be darkened--not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.'
11. I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation [is] to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;
12. and if the fall of them [is] the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?
13. For to you I speak--to the nations--inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;
14. if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them,
15. for if the casting away of them [is] a reconciliation of the world, what the reception- -if not life out of the dead?
16. and if the first-fruit [is] holy, the lump also; and if the root [is] holy, the branches also.
17. And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become--
18. do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee!
19. Thou wilt say, then, `The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!
20. by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;
21. for if God the natural branches did not spare--lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.
22. Lo, then, goodness and severity of God--upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.
23. And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in;
24. for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who [are] according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?