concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh,

for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that ye may be established;

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead -- to their being inexcusable;

to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during;

For not through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;

Because of this it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham,

Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: 'So shall thy seed be;'

nor because they are seed of Abraham are all children, but -- 'in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

that is, the children of the flesh -- these are not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

and according as Isaiah saith before, 'Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.'

I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:

'Lord, Thy prophets they did kill, and Thy altars they dug down, and I was left alone, and they seek my life;'

What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,

according 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,

but according as it hath been written, 'To whom it was not told concerning him, they shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.'

when I may go on to Spain I will come unto you, for I hope in going through, to see you, and by you to be set forward thither, if of you first, in part, I shall be filled.