4 And what was God’s answer to him? ‘I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.’
5 So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
6 And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.
7 What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened,
8 as it is written:‘God gave them a spirit of stupor,eyes that could not seeand ears that could not hear,to this very day.’
9 And David says:‘May their table become a snare and a trap,a stumbling-block and a retribution for them.
10 May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,and their backs be bent for ever.’