^{7 Ref} What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,

^{8 Ref} according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' -- unto this very day,

^{9 Ref} and David saith, `Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them;

^{10 Ref} let their eyes be darkened -- not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.'

^{11 Ref} I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation `is' to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;

^{12 Ref} and if the fall of them `is' the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?

^{13 Ref} For to you I speak -- to the nations -- inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;

^{14 Ref} if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them,