^{15 Ref} For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?

^{16 Ref} And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

^{17 Ref} But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,