And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who are of Israel are these Israel;

And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, 'If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved;

and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive;

Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that is to God for Israel, is -- for salvation;

But I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, 'I will provoke you to jealousy by that which is not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,'

and unto Israel He saith, 'All the day I did stretch out My hands unto a people unbelieving and gainsaying.'

God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known -- in Elijah -- what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,

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

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret -- that ye may not be wise in your own conceits -- that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;

and so all Israel shall be saved, according as it hath been written, 'There shall come forth out of Sion he who is delivering, and he shall turn away impiety from Jacob,