神并没有弃绝自己预先所知道的子民。难道你们不知道那有关以利亚的经文怎么说吗?他怎样向神抱怨以色列人呢?

“主啊,他们杀了你的先知们,拆毁了你的祭坛,
只剩下我一个人,他们还要追索我的命。”[a]

但神对他的答复是怎么说的呢?“我为自己保留了七千人,他们是没有向巴力屈膝的。”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 罗马书 11:3 《列王纪上》19:10,14。
  2. 罗马书 11:4 《列王纪上》19:18。

(A)God has not rejected his people whom he (B)foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? (C)“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.” But what is God's reply to him? (D)“I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

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