^{2 Ref} God has not put away the people of his selection. Or have you no knowledge of what is said about Elijah in the holy Writings? how he says words to God against Israel,

^{3 Ref} Lord, they have put your prophets to death, and made waste your altars, and now I am the last, and they are searching for me to take away my life.

^{4 Ref} But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.

^{5 Ref} In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.

^{6 Ref} But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

^{7 Ref} What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.

^{8 Ref} As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

^{9 Ref} And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:

^{10 Ref} Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.

^{11 Ref} So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.

^{12 Ref} Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?