011:007 How then does the matter stand? It stands thus. That which
Israel are in earnest pursuit of, they have not obtained;
but God's chosen servants have obtained it, and the rest
have become hardened.
011:008 And so Scripture says, "God has given them a spirit of drowsiness--
eyes to see nothing with and ears to hear nothing with--
even until now."
011:009 And David says, "Let their very food become a snare and a trap
to them, a stumbling-block and a retribution.
011:010 Let darkness come over their eyes that they may be unable to see,
and make Thou their backs continually to stoop."
011:011 I ask, however, "Have they stumbled so as to be finally ruined?"
No, indeed; but by their lapse salvation has come to the Gentiles
in order to arouse the jealousy of the descendants of Israel;
011:012 and if their lapse is the enriching of the world, and their
overthrow the enriching of the Gentiles, will not still
greater good follow their restoration?
011:013 But to you Gentiles I say that, since I am an Apostle specially
sent to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry,
011:014 trying whether I can succeed in rousing my own countrymen
to jealousy and thus save some of them.
011:015 For if their having been cast aside has carried with it
the reconciliation of the world, what will their being accepted
again be but Life out of death?
011:016 Now if the firstfruits of the dough are holy, so also is
the whole mass; and if the root of a tree is holy, so also
are the branches.
011:017 And if some of the branches have been pruned away, and you,
although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among
them and have become a sharer with others in the rich sap