1 So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God has not put away the people of his selection. Or have you no knowledge of what is said about Elijah in the holy Writings? how he says words to God against Israel,
3 Lord, they have put your prophets to death, and made waste your altars, and now I am the last, and they are searching for me to take away my life.
4 But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.
5 In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.
6 But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.
7 What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.
8 As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.
9 And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:
10 Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.
11 So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.
12 Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?
13 But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:
14 If in any way those who are of my flesh may be moved to envy, so that some of them may get salvation by me.
15 For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?
16 And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,
18 Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.
19 You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in.
20 Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear;
21 For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.
22 See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.
23 And they, if they do not go on without faith, will be united to the tree again, because God is able to put them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?
25 For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;
26 And so all Israel will get salvation: as it is said in the holy Writings, There will come out of Zion the One who makes free; by him wrongdoing will be taken away from Jacob:
27 And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.
28 As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers.
29 Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.
30 For as you, in time past, were not under the rule of God, but now have got mercy through their turning away,
31 So in the same way these have gone against the orders of God, so that by the mercy given to you they may now get mercy.
32 For God has let them all go against his orders, so that he might have mercy on them all.
33 O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.
34 Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes?
35 Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?
36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. So be it.
1 Protož pravím: Zdali jest Bůh zavrhl lid svůj? Nikoli; nebo i já Izraelský jsem, z semene Abrahamova, z pokolení Beniaminova.
2 Nezavrhlť jest Bůh lidu svého, kterýž předzvěděl. Zdali nevíte, co Písmo praví o Eliášovi? Kterak se modlí Bohu proti lidu Izraelskému řka:
3 Pane, proroky tvé zmordovali a oltáře tvé rozkopali, já pak zůstal jsem sám, a i méť duše hledají.
4 Ale co jemu dí odpověd Boží? Pozůstavil jsem sobě sedm tisíců mužů, kteříž neskláněli kolen před Bálem.
5 Takť i nyní ostatkové podle vyvolení jdoucího z pouhé milosti Boží zůstali,
6 A poněvadž z milosti, tedy ne z skutků, sic jinak milost již by nebyla milost. Pakli z skutků, tedy již není milost, jinak skutek nebyl by skutek.
7 Což tedy? Čeho hledá Izrael, toho jest nedošel, ale vyvolení došli toho, jiní pak zatvrzeni jsou,
8 (Jakož psáno jest: Dal jim Bůh ducha zkormoucení, oči, aby neviděli, a uši, aby neslyšeli,) až do dnešního dne.
9 A David dí: Budiž jim stůl jejich osidlem a pastmi a pohoršením i spravedlivým odplacením.
10 Zatmětež se oči jejich, ať nevidí, a hřbet jejich vždycky shýbej.
11 A z toho pravím: Tak-liž jsou pak Židé klesli, aby docela padli? Nikoli, ale jejich klesnutím spasení přiblížilo se pohanům, aby je tak Bůh k závidění přivedl.
12 A poněvadž pak jejich pád jest bohatství světa a zmenšení jejich jest bohatství pohanů, čím více plnost jich?
13 Vámť zajisté pravím pohanům, jelikož jsem já apoštol pohanský, přisluhování mé oslavuji,
14 Zda bych jak k závidění vzbuditi mohl ty, jenž jsou tělo mé, a k spasení přivésti aspoň některé z nich.
15 Nebo kdyžť zavržení jich jest smíření světa, co pak bude zase jich přijetí, než život z mrtvých?
16 Poněvadž prvotiny svaté jsou, takéť svaté jest i těsto; a jest-liť kořen svatý, tedy i ratolesti.
17 Žeť jsou pak některé ratolesti vylomeny, a ty, byv planou olivou, vštípen jsi místo nich a učiněn jsi účastník kořene i tučnosti olivy.
18 Proto ty se nechlub proti ratolestem. Pakli se chlubíš, věz, že ne ty kořen neseš, ale kořen tebe.
19 Pakli díš: Vylomeny jsou ratolesti, abych já byl vštípen,
20 Dobře pravíš. Pro nevěru vylomeny jsou, ale ty věrou stojíš. Nebudiž vysokomyslný, ale boj se.
21 Nebo poněvadž Bůh ratolestem přirozeným neodpustil, věz, žeť by ani tobě neodpustil.
22 A protož viz dobrotivost i zuřivost Boží. K těm zajisté, kteříž padli, zuřivost, ale k tobě dobrotivost, ač budeš-li trvati v dobrotě. Sic jinak i ty vyťat budeš.
23 Ano i oni, jestliže nezůstanou v nevěře, zase vštípeni budou. Mocenť jest zajisté Bůh zase vštípiti je.
24 Nebo poněvadž ty vyťat jsi z přirozené plané olivy a proti přirození vštípen jsi v dobrou olivu, čím více pak ti, kteříž podle přirození jsou z dobré olivy, vštípeni budou v svou vlastní olivu.
25 Neboť nechci, bratří, abyste nevěděli tohoto tajemství, (abyste nebyli sami u sebe moudří,) že zatvrdilost tato zčástky přihodila se Izraelovi, dokudž by nevešla plnost pohanů.
26 A takť všecken Izrael spasen bude, jakož psáno jest: Přijde z Siona vysvoboditel a odvrátíť bezbožnosti od Jákoba.
27 A tatoť bude smlouva má s nimi, když shladím hříchy jejich.
28 A tak s strany evangelium jsouť nepřátelé pro vás, ale podle vyvolení jsou milí pro otce svaté.
29 Darů zajisté svých a povolání Bůh nelituje.
30 Nebo jakož i vy někdy jste nebyli poslušni Boha, ale nyní milosrdenství jste došli pro jejich nevěru,
31 Tak i oni nyní neuposlechli, aby pro učiněné vám milosrdenství i oni také milosrdenství dosáhli.
32 Zavřel zajisté Bůh všecky v nevěře, aby se nade všemi smiloval.
33 Ó hlubokosti bohatství i moudrosti i umění Božího! Jak jsou nezpytatelní soudové jeho a nevystižitelné cesty jeho!
34 Nebo kdo jest poznal mysl Páně? Aneb kdo jemu radil?
35 Nebo kdo prve dal jemu, a budeť mu odplaceno?
36 Nebo z něho a skrze něho a v něm jsou všecky věci, jemuž sláva na věky. Amen.