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."
11. Therefore, I say: Have they stumbled in such a way that they should fall? Let it not be so! Instead, by their offense, salvation is with the Gentiles, so that they may be a rival to them.
12. Now if their offense is the riches of the world, and if their diminution is the riches of the Gentiles, how much more is their fullness?
13. For I say to you Gentiles: Certainly, as long as I am an Apostle to the Gentiles, I will honor my ministry,
14. in such a way that I might provoke to rivalry those who are my own flesh, and so that I may save some of them.
15. For if their loss is for the reconciliation of the world, what could their return be for, except life out of death?
16. For if the first-fruit has been sanctified, so also has the whole. And if the root is holy, so also are the branches.
17. And if some of the branches are broken, and if you, being a wild olive branch, are grafted on to them, and you become a partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,