28. For he shall complete his word, while abbreviating it out of equity. For the Lord shall accomplish a brief word upon the earth."
29. And it is just as Isaiah predicted: "Unless the Lord of hosts had bequeathed offspring, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made similar to Gomorrah."
30. What should we say next? That the Gentiles who did not follow justice have attained justice, even the justice that is of faith.
31. Yet truly, Israel, though following the law of justice, has not arrived at the law of justice.
32. Why is this? Because they did not seek it from faith, but as if it were from works. For they stumbled over a stumbling block,
33. just as it was written: "Behold, I am placing a stumbling block in Zion, and a rock of scandal. But whoever believes in him shall not be confounded."