own? First, Moses saith: I will
provoke you to jealousy by that which is not a nation: by a foolish
nation I will anger you.

10:20. But Isaias is bold, and saith: I was found by them that did not
seek me. I appeared openly to them that asked not after me.

10:21. But to Israel he saith: All the day long have I spread my hands
to a people that believeth not and contradicteth me.

Romans Chapter 11

God hath not cast off all Israel. The Gentiles must not be proud but
stand in faith and fear.

11:1. I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid! For I also
am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

11:2. 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?

11:3. Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars.
And I am left alone: and they seek my life.

11:4. But what saith the divine answer to him? I have left me seven
thousand men that have not bowed their knees to Baal.

Seven thousand, etc... This is very ill alleged by some, against the
perpetual visibility of the church of Christ; the more, because however
the number of the faithful might be abridged by the persecution of
Jezabel in the kingdom of the ten tribes, the church was at the same
time in a most flourishing condition (under Asa and Josaphat) in the
kingdom of Judah.

11:5. Even so then, at this present time also, there is a remnant saved
according to the election of grace.

11:6. And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no
more grace.

It is not now by works, etc... If salvation were to come by works, done
by nature, without faith and grace, salvation would not be a grace or
favour, but a debt; but such dead works are indeed of no value in the
sight of God towards salvation. It is not the same with regard to works
done with, and by, God's grace; for to such works as these, he has
promised eternal salvation.

11:7. What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but the
election hath obtained it. And the rest have been blinded.

11:8. 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.

God hath given them, etc... Not by his working or acting in them; but by
his permission, and by withdrawing his grace in punishment of their
obstinacy.

11:9. And David saith: Let their