16 But all have not obeyed the gospel; for Isaiah says, “Who has believed our report?”
17 Faith then is by hearing, and hearing through the word of God.
18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes, verily, “Into all the earth has gone forth their sound,
and into the ends of the world their words.”
19 But I say, Has not Israel known? First, Moses says, “I will provoke them to jealousy by them
who are not a people, and by a foolish nation will I irritate them:”
20 Then Isaiah is bold and says, “I have been found by those who sought me not, I have been
made manifest to those, who inquired not for me;
21 But of Israel he says, “Daily have I stretched forth my hands to a people disobedient and
gain saying.”
CHAPTER 11
1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? By no means; for I also am an Israelite, from the
seed of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God has not cast away his people whom he has foreknown. Know ye not what the Scripture
saith as to Elias? how he appeals to God against Israel, saying,
3 “Lord, thy prophets have they killed, and thy altars have they pulled down, and I am left
alone, and they seek my life?”
4 But what says the answer of God to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men,
who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.”
5 So now, even at this time, there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if through grace, then no longer by works, otherwise grace is no longer grace; but if by
works, then no longer by grace, otherwise work is no longer work.
7 What then? That which Israel seeks, he has not obtained; but election has obtained it, and the
rest have been blinded,
8 As it is written, “God has given them the spirit of compunction, eyes so as not to see, and
ears so as not to hear,” even to this day;
9 And David says, “Be their table for a snare and for a trap, and for a stumbling, and for a
recompense to them;
10 Darkened be their eyes so as not to see, and their back ever bow thou down.”
11 I say then, Have they stumbled so as wholly to fall? By no means; but by their fall salvation
is come to the Gentiles in order to provoke them to jealousy.
12 But if their fall be the riches of the world, and their diminution the riches of the Gentiles,
how much more their fulness?
13 Even to you Gentiles do I speak, — As far, doubtless, as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles,
I make illustrious my office,
14 If by any means I shall provoke to emulation my flesh, and shall save some of them.
15 If indeed their rejection be the reconciliation of the world, what will be their resumption but
life from the dead?
16 Now if the first-fruits be holy, even so the lump; and if the root be holy, so also the branches.
17 If indeed some of the branches have been broken off, and thou, a wild olive, hast been
ingrafted instead of them, and hast become a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive,