2. God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah? how he makes intercession to God against Israel, saying,
3. Lord, they have killed your prophets, and dug down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4. But what says the answer of God unto him?
5. Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6. And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7. What then? Israel has not obtained that which it seeks for; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded
8. (According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
9. And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense unto them: