If the first handful of dough is consecrated, the whole mass is, and if the root of a tree is consecrated, so are its branches.

If some of the branches have been broken off, and you who were only a wild olive shoot have been grafted in, in place of them, and made to share the richness of the olive's root,

you must not look down upon the branches. If you do, remember that you do not support the root; the root supports you.

"But," you will say, "branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in!"

for if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you.