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Greek: New Testament (NAS)
English: John Barach
Chapter 11
The Remnant and the Olive Tree
1 Λέγω οὖν, μὴ ἀπώσατο ὁ θεὸς τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ; μὴ γένοιτο· καὶ γὰρ ἐγὼ Ἰσραηλίτης εἰμί, ἐκ σπέρματος Ἀβραάμ, φυλῆς Βενιαμίν. 2 οὐκ ἀπώσατο ὁ θεὸς τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ ὃν προέγνω. ἢ οὐκ οἴδατε ἐν Ἠλίᾳ τί λέγει ἡ γραφή, ὡς ἐντυγχάνει τῷ θεῷ κατὰ τοῦ Ἰσραήλ; 3 Κύριε, τοὺς προφήτας σου ἀπέκτειναν, τὰ θυσιαστήριά σου κατέσκαψαν, κἀγὼ ὑπελείφθην μόνος καὶ ζητοῦσιν τὴν ψυχήν μου. {I Kings 19:10,14} 4 ἀλλὰ τί λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ χρηματισμός; Κατέλιπον ἐμαυτῷ ἑπτακισχιλίους ἄνδρας, οἵτινες οὐκ ἔκαμψαν γόνυ τῇ Βάαλ. {I Kings 19:18} 5 οὕτως οὖν καὶ ἐν τῷ νῦν καιρῷ λεῖμμα κατ' ἐκλογὴν χάριτος γέγονεν· 6 εἰ δὲ χάριτι, οὐκέτι ἐξ ἔργων, ἐπεὶ ἡ χάρις οὐκέτι γίνεται χάρις.
1I ask then, did God push away his people? May it never be! For I myself am an Israelite, from the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2God did not push away his people whom he foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? 3“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars; I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.” {I Kings 19:10,14} 4But what was the divine response to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” {I Kings 19:18} 5So then, in the same way, at the present time there has come to be a remnant according to the choice of grace. 6But if it is by grace, it is no longer based on works; otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.
7 Τί οὖν; ὃ ἐπιζητεῖ Ἰσραήλ, τοῦτο οὐκ ἐπέτυχεν, ἡ δὲ ἐκλογὴ ἐπέτυχεν· οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ ἐπωρώθησαν, 8 καθὼς γέγραπται,
  Ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς ὁ θεὸς πνεῦμα κατανύξεως,
ὀφθαλμοὺς τοῦ μὴ βλέπειν
καὶ ὦτα τοῦ μὴ ἀκούειν,
ἕως τῆς σήμερον ἡμέρας. {Deut. 29:4}
7What then? What Israel is searching for, it did not obtain; but the “chosen” obtained it, and the rest were hardened, 8just as it is written:
  “God gave them a spirit of stupor,
eyes that do not see
and ears that do not hear,
down to this very day.” {Deut. 29:4}
9 καὶ Δαυὶδ λέγει,
  Γενηθήτω ἡ τράπεζα αὐτῶν εἰς παγίδα καὶ εἰς θήραν
καὶ εἰς σκάνδαλον καὶ εἰς ἀνταπόδομα αὐτοῖς,
10 σκοτισθήτωσαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτῶν τοῦ μὴ βλέπειν
καὶ τὸν νῶτον αὐτῶν διὰ παντὸς σύγκαμψον. {Psalm 68 (69):22-23}
9And David says:
  “Let their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution to them;
10let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,
and keep their backs bent forever.” {Psalm 68 (69):22-23}
11 Λέγω οὖν, μὴ ἔπταισαν ἵνα πέσωσιν; μὴ γένοιτο· ἀλλὰ τῷ αὐτῶν παραπτώματι ἡ σωτηρίᾳ τοῖς ἔθνεσιν εἰς τὸ παραζηλῶσαι αὐτούς. 12 εἰ δὲ τὸ παράπτωμα αὐτῶν πλοῦτος κόσμου καὶ τὸ ἥττημα αὐτῶν πλοῦτος ἐθνῶν, πόσῳ μᾶλλον τὸ πλήρωμα αὐτῶν.
11I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall [permanently]? May it never be! Rather, by their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous. 12Now if their transgression means wealth for the world and their defeat means wealth for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
13 Ὑμῖν δὲ λέγω τοῖς ἔθνεσιν· ἐφ' ὅσον μὲν οὖν εἰμι ἐγὼ ἐθνῶν ἀπόστολος τὴν διακονίαν μου δοξάζω, 14 εἴ πως παραζηλώσω μου τὴν σάρκα καὶ σώσω τινὰς ἐξ αὐτῶν. 15 εἰ γὰρ ἡ ἀποβολὴ αὐτῶν καταλλαγὴ κόσμου, τίς ἡ πρόσλημψις εἰ μὴ ζωὴ ἐκ νεκρῶν; 16 εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀπαρχὴ ἁγία καὶ τὸ φύραμα· καὶ εἰ ἡ ῥίζα ἁγία, καὶ οἱ κλάδοι.
13Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Insofar as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry 14in the hope that I might somehow make my own flesh and blood jealous and save some of them. 15For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 16If the first-handful of dough is holy, so is the whole batch; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 Εἰ δὲ τινες τῶν κλάδων ἐξεκλάσθησαν, σὺ δὲ ἀγριέλαιος ὢν ἐνεκεντρίσθης ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ συγκοινωνὸς τῆς ῥίζης τῆς πιότητος τῆς ἐλαίας ἐγένου, 18 μὴ κατακαυχῶ τῶν κλάδων· εἰ δὲ κατακαυχᾶσαι οὐ σὺ τὴν ῥίζαν βαστάζεις ἀλλὰ ἡ ῥίζα σέ. 19 ἐρεῖς οὖν, Ἐξεκλάσθησαν κλάδοι ἵνα ἐγὼ ἐγκεντρισθῶ. 20 καλῶς· τῇ ἀπιστίᾳ ἐξεκλάσθησαν, σὺ δὲ τῇ πίστει ἕστηκας. μὴ ὑψηλὰ φρόνει ἀλλὰ φοβοῦ· 21 εἰ γὰρ ὁ θεὸς τῶν κατὰ φύσιν κλάδων οὐκ ἐφείσατο, [μή πως] οὐδὲ σοῦ φείσεται. 22 ἴδε οὖν χρηστότητα καὶ ἀποτομίαν θεοῦ· ἐπὶ μὲν τοὺς πεσόντας ἀποτομία, ἐπὶ δὲ σὲ χρηστότης θεοῦ, ἐὰν ἐπιμένῃς τῇ χρηστότητι, ἐπεὶ καὶ σὺ ἐκκοπήσῃ. 23 κἀκεῖνοι δέ, ἐὰν μὴ ἐπιμένωσιν τῇ ἀπιστίᾳ, ἐγκεντρισθήσονται· δυνατὸς γάρ ἐστιν ὁ θεὸς πάλιν ἐγκεντρίσαι αὐτούς. 24 εἰ γὰρ σὺ ἐκ τῆς κατὰ φύσιν ἐξεκόπης ἀγριελαίου καὶ παρὰ φύσιν ἐνεκεντρίσθης εἰς καλλιέλαιον, πόσῳ μᾶλλον οὗτοι οἱ κατὰ φύσιν ἐγκεντρισθήσονται τῇ ἰδίᾳ ἐλαίᾳ.
17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you—being a wild olive shoot—were grafted in among them and became a sharer in the rich root of the olive tree, 18do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember: you do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” 20True enough. They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear. 21For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. 22Behold, then, the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but God’s kindness toward you—provided you remain in that kindness; otherwise, you too will be cut off. 23And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again. 24For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree!
25 Οὐ γὰρ θέλω ὑμᾶς ἀγνοεῖν, ἀδελφοί, τὸ μυστήριον τοῦτο, ἵνα μὴ ἦτε [παρ'] ἑαυτοῖς φρόνιμοι, ὅτι πώρωσις ἀπὸ μέρους τῷ Ἰσραὴλ γέγονεν ἄχρις οὗ τὸ πλήρωμα τῶν ἐθνῶν εἰσέλθῃ 26 καὶ οὕτως πᾶς Ἰσραὴλ σωθήσεται, καθὼς γέγραπται,
  Ἥξει ἐκ Σιὼν ὁ ῥυόμενος,
ἀποστρέψει ἀσεβείας ἀπὸ Ἰακώβ.
27 καὶ αὕτη αὐτοῖς ἡ παρ' ἐμοῦ διαθήκη,
ὅταν ἀφέλωμαι τὰς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν. {Isaiah 59:20-21}
25 For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you will not be wise in your own estimation: a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles comes in; 26and in this way, all Israel will be saved, as it is written:
  “The Deliverer will come from Zion;
he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
27And this is my covenant with them
when I take away their sins.” {Isaiah 59:20-21}
28 κατὰ μὲν τὸ εὐαγγέλιον ἐχθροὶ δι' ὑμᾶς, κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἐκλογὴν ἀγαπητοὶ διὰ τοὺς πατέρας· 29 ἀμεταμέλητα γὰρ τὰ χαρίσματα καὶ ἡ κλῆσις τοῦ θεοῦ. 30 ὥσπερ γὰρ ὑμεῖς ποτε ἠπειθήσατε τῷ θεῷ, νῦν δὲ ἠλεήθητε τῇ τούτων ἀπειθείᾳ, 31 οὕτως καὶ οὗτοι νῦν ἠπείθησαν τῷ ὑμετέρῳ ἐλέει, ἵνα καὶ αὐτοὶ [νῦν] ἐλεηθῶσιν. 32 συνέκλεισεν γὰρ ὁ θεὸς τοὺς πάντας εἰς ἀπείθειαν, ἵνα τοὺς πάντας ἐλεήσῃ.
28Regarding the gospel, they are “enemies” for your sake; but regarding election, they are “beloved” for the sake of the patriarchs. 29For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30For just as you were once disobedient to God but now have received mercy through their disobedience, 31so they too have now been disobedient so that, through the mercy shown to you, they also may now receive mercy. 32For God has locked up all people in disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all.
33 Ὦ βάθος πλούτου καὶ σοφίας καὶ γνώσεως θεοῦ· ὡς ἀνεξεραύνητα τὰ κρίματα αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀνεξιχνίαστοι αἱ ὁδοὶ αὐτοῦ. 34
  Τίς γὰρ ἔγνω νοῦν κυρίου;
ἢ τίς σύμβουλος αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο;
35 ἢ τίς προέδωκεν αὐτῷ, καὶ ἀνταποδοθήσεται αὐτῷ; {Isaiah 40:13}
36 ὅτι ἐξ αὐτοῦ καὶ δι' αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰς αὐτὸν τὰ πάντα· αὐτῷ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας, ἀμήν.
33Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how untraceable his paths!
  34“For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?” 35“Or who has first given to him,
that he should be repaid?” {Isaiah 40:13}
36For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.