2. God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias; how he calleth on God against Israel?
3. Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4. But what saith the divine answer to him? I have left me seven thousand men, that have not bowed their knees to Baal.
5. Even so then at this present time also, there is a remnant saved according to the election of grace.
6. And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no more grace.
7. What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but the election hath obtained it; and the rest have been blinded.
8. As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see; and ears that they should not hear, until this present day.
9. And David saith: Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them.