6and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work.
7What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,
8according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,` -- unto this very day,
9and David saith, `Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them;
10let their eyes be darkened -- not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.`
11I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation [is] to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;
12and if the fall of them [is] the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?
