3. "Lord, they have slain your Prophets. They have overturned your altars. And I alone remain, and they are seeking my life."
4. But what is the Divine response to him? "I have retained for myself seven thousand men, who have not bent their knees before Baal."
5. Therefore, in the same way, again in this time, there is a remnant that has been saved in accord with the choice of grace.
6. And if it is by grace, then it is not now by works; otherwise grace is no longer free.
7. What is next? What Israel was seeking, he has not obtained. But the elect have obtained it. And truly, these others have been blinded,
8. just as it was written: "God has given them a spirit of reluctance: eyes that do not perceive, and ears that do not hear, even until this very day."
9. And David says: "Let their table become like a snare, and a deception, and a scandal, and a retribution for them.
10. Let their eyes be obscured, so that they may not see, and so that they may bow down their backs always."