ECB(i)
15 For if their casting away be the reconciling of the cosmos, what a reception if not life from the dead?
16 For if the firstlings be holy, the lump also: and if the root be holy, the branches also.
17 And if some of the branches are exscinded and you, being a wild olive, are ingrafted and with them become co-partaker of the root and fatness of the olives;