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to make one vessel for an honourable use, and another for a
dishonourable? (22)But what if God, willing to display his wrath, and
to make known what is possible with him, hath borne with much
long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted for perdition: (23)and that
he might make known the riches of his glory upon the vessels of mercy
which he had before prepared for glory: (24)even us, whom he hath
called, not only out of the Jews, but out of the Gentiles? (25)As also
he saith in Hosea[62], "I will call her which was not my people, my
people; and her which was not beloved, beloved. (26)And it shall be in
the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people; there
shall they be called the sons of the living God." (27)But Isaiah[63]
crieth concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel be
as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: (28)for he will
finish the account, and cut it short in righteousness: because a
concise account will the Lord make on the earth." (29)Even as Isaiah
had said before[64], "Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left unto us a
seed, we should have become as Sodom, and been made like unto
Gomorrha."

(30)What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who pursued not after
righteousness, have attained unto righteousness, even the righteousness
which is by faith. (31)But Israel, pursuing after the law of
righteousness, hath not come up to the law of righteousness. (32)And
why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as by the works of the
law. For they stumbled against that stone of stumbling; (33)as it is
written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of
offence: and every one that believeth in him shall not be
confounded[65]."

CHAP. X.

BRETHREN, the kind wish of my heart indeed, and the prayer which I
offer to God for Israel, is for their salvation. (2)For I am a witness
for them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to
knowledge. (3)For being ignorant of the righteousness which is of God,
and seeking to establish a righteousness of their own, they have not
submitted to the righteousness of God. (4)For Christ is the end of the
law for righteousness to every one that believeth. (5)For Moses
describeth the righteousness which is by the law, "That the man who
doeth these things shall live by them[66]." (6)But the righteousness
that is by faith speaketh thus[67], "Say not in thy heart, Who shall
ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down:) (