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;