Living_Oracles(i)
7 What then? The thing Israel earnestly seeks, that he has not obtained. But the election has obtained it, and the rest are blinded.
8 As it is written, "God has given them a spirit of deep sleep; eyes not seeing, and ears not hearing, until this present day."
9 And David says, "Let their table be for a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense to them.
10 Let their eyes be darkened, so as not to see; and let them bow down their back continually.
11 I ask, then, have they stumbled, that they may fall? By no means. But, through their fall, salvation is given to the Gentiles, to excite them to emulation.
12 Now, if the fall of them be the riches of the world; and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
13 Now, I speak to you, Gentiles, (and inasmuch as I am the Apostle to the Gentiles, I do honor to my ministry,)
14 if by any means I may excite to emulation my kindred, and may save some of them.