1. I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2. God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in the history of Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?
3. Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and I have been left alone, and they seek my life.
4. But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed knee to Baal.
5. Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace.
6. But if by grace, no longer of works: since otherwise grace is no more grace.