² God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias; how he calleth on God against Israel?

³ Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

⁴ But what saith the divine answer to him? I have left me seven thousand men, that have not bowed their knees to Baal.

⁵ Even so then at this present time also, there is a remnant saved according to the election of grace.

⁶ And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

⁷ What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but the election hath obtained it; and the rest have been blinded.

⁸ As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see; and ears that they should not hear, until this present day.

⁹ And David saith: Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense unto them.

¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and bow down their back always.

¹¹ I say then, have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid. But by their offence, salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them.

¹² Now if the offence of them be the riches of the world, and the diminution of them, the riches of the Gentiles; how much more the fulness of them?