45:010:018 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes
verily, their sound went
into
all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the
world.
45:010:019 But I say, Did not Israel know? First
Moses saith, I will
provoke
you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by
a
foolish
nation I will anger you.
45:010:020 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was
found of them that
sought
me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not
after
me.
45:010:021 But to Israel he saith, All day long I
have stretched forth my
hands
unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
45:011:001 I say then, Hath God cast away his people?
God forbid. For I
also
am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe
of
Benjamin.
45:011:002 God hath not cast away his people which
he foreknew. Wot ye
not
what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh
intercession
to God against Israel saying,
45:011:003 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and
digged down thine
altars;
and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
45:011:004 But what saith the answer of God unto him?
I have reserved to
myself
seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to
the
image
of Baal.
45:011:005 Even so then at this present time also
there is a remnant
according
to the election of grace.
45:011:006 And if by grace, then is it no more of
works: otherwise grace
is
no more grace. But if it be of works, then it
is no more
grace:
otherwise work is no more work.
45:011:007 What then? Israel hath not obtained
that which he seeketh for;
but
the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
45:011:008 (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;) unto this day.
45:011:009 And David saith, Let their table be made
a snare, and a trap,
and
a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
45:011:010 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may
not see, and bow
down
their back alway.
45:011:011 I say then, Have they stumbled that they
should fall? God
forbid:
but rather through their fall salvation is come unto
the
Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
45:011:012 Now if the fall of them be the riches of
the world, and the
diminishing
of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more
their
fulness?
45:011:013 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as
I am the apostle of
the
Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
45:011:014 If by any means I may provoke to emulation
them which are my
flesh,
and might save some of them.


