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God has not rejected His peoplewhom He foreknew. Or do you not knowwhat the Scripturesays in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with GodagainstIsrael?
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I saythen, they did not stumbleso as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgressionsalvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.
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But ifsome of the branches were brokenoff, and you, being a wildolive, were grafted in among them and becamepartaker with them of the richroot of the olivetree,