And if the first portion of the dough is holy, so also will be the lump; and if the root is holy, so will be the branches.

And if some of the branches have been broken off, and thou, a wild olive, hast been grafted in among them, and become a partaker with them of the root and fatness of the olivetree,

boast not over the branches; for if thou boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee.

Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

For if God spared the natural branches, take care lest he spare not thee.

For if thou hast been cut off from an olivetree wild by nature, and hast against thy nature been ingrafted into a good olivetree, how much more shall these, the natural branches, be ingrafted into their own olivestock?