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.
7. What is it then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,
8. according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day.
9. And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:
10. let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway.
11. I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall there is salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.