and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah's womb,

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

Thou wilt say, then, to me, 'Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?'

And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become --

Thou wilt say, then, 'The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!

for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?