CHAP. 11: 11—36. •

*^I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall 1 God forbid : but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. ^^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 fulness. ^^For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office. **If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. ^^For if the casting away of them be the reconci- ling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead. *^For if the first-fruit be holy, the lump is also holT/ .• and if the root be holy, so are the branches. ^5' And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree ; *^boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. ^^Thou wilt say then, the branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. ^oYYgji . because of unbelief they were