¹　神并没有丢弃以色列人

¹I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:

²　神并没有丢弃他预先知道的子民。难道你们不知道在经上以利亚的话是怎样说的吗？他向　神控诉以色列人：

²God 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,

³“主啊，他们杀了你的众先知，拆毁了你的祭坛，只剩下我一个人，他们还在寻索我的性命。”

³`Lord, Thy prophets they did kill, and Thy altars they dug down, and I was left alone, and they seek my life;`

⁴但　神怎样回答他呢？”我为自己留下了七千人，是没有向巴力屈膝的。”

⁴but what saith the divine answer to him? `I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow a knee to Baal.`

⁵因此，现在也是这样，按着恩典的拣选，还有剩下的余数。

⁵So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been;

⁶既然是靠着恩典，就不再是由于行为了；不然的话，恩典就不再是恩典了。

⁶and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work.

⁷那又怎么样呢？以色列人恳切寻找的，他们没有得到，蒙拣选的人倒得着了。其余的人都成了顽固的，

⁷What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,

⁸正如经上所记：“　神给了他们麻木的灵，有眼睛却看不见，有耳朵却听不到，直到今日。”

⁸according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,` — unto this very day,

⁹大卫也说：“愿他们的筵席成为他们的网罗、陷阱、绊脚石和报应；

⁹and David saith, `Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them;

¹⁰愿他们的眼睛昏暗，不能看见；愿他们的背脊常常弯曲。”

¹⁰let their eyes be darkened — not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.`

¹¹外族人因信得到救恩那么我要说，他们失足是要倒下去吗？绝对不是！反而因为他们的过犯，救恩就临到外族人，为了要激起他们奋发。

¹¹I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation [is] to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;

¹²既然他们的过犯可以使世人富足，他们的失败可以使外族人富足，何况他们的丰盛呢？

¹²and if the fall of them [is] the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?

¹³我现在对你们外族人说话，因为我是外族人的使徒，所以尊重我的职分，

¹³For to you I speak — to the nations — inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;

¹⁴这样也许可以激起我骨肉之亲奋发，使他们中间有一些人得救。

¹⁴if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them,

¹⁵如果他们被舍弃，世人就可以与　神复和；他们蒙接纳，不就等于从死人中复活吗？

¹⁵for if the casting away of them [is] a reconciliation of the world, what the reception — if not life out of the dead?

¹⁶如果首先献上的生面是圣的，整团面也是圣的；如果树根是圣的，树枝也是圣的。

¹⁶and if the first-fruit [is] holy, the lump also; and if the root [is] holy, the branches also.

¹⁷如果把几根树枝折下来，让你这野橄榄可以接上去，一同分享那橄榄树根的汁浆，

¹⁷And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become —

¹⁸你就不可向那些树枝夸口。你若要夸口，就应当想想：不是你支持着树根，而是树根支持着你。

¹⁸do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee!

¹⁹那么你会说，那些树枝被折下来，就是要把我接上去。

¹⁹Thou wilt say, then, `The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;` right!

²⁰不错，他们因为不信而被折下来，你因着信才站立得住。只是不可心高气傲，倒要存畏惧的心。

²⁰by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;

²¹　神既然不顾惜那本来的树枝，也不会顾惜你。

²¹for if God the natural branches did not spare — lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.

²²所以要留意　神的恩慈和严厉：对跌倒的人，他是严厉的；对你，只要你继续在他的恩慈里，他是恩慈的；不然的话，你也会被砍下来。

²²Lo, then, goodness and severity of God — upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.

²³至于他们，如果不是继续不信，他们仍然会被接上去，因为　神能够把他们再接上去。

²³And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in;

²⁴你这从野生的橄榄树上砍下来的，尚且可以不自然地接在栽种的橄榄树上，那些本来就有的树枝，不是更能够接在原来的橄榄树上吗？

²⁴for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who [are] according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?

²⁵全以色列都要得救弟兄们，我不愿意你们对这奥秘一无所知，免得你们自以为聪明。这奥秘就是以色列人当中有一部分是硬心的，直到外族人的全数满了；

²⁵For 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;

²⁶这样，全以色列都要得救，如经上所记：“拯救者必从锡安出来，除掉雅各家的不敬虔的心；

²⁶and 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,

²⁷我除去他们罪恶的时候，就与他们立这样的约。”

²⁷and this to them [is] the covenant from Me, when I may take away their sins.`

²⁸就福音来说，因你们的缘故，他们是仇敌；就拣选来说，因祖宗的缘故，他们是蒙爱的。

²⁸As regards, indeed, the good tidings, [they are] enemies on your account; and as regards the choice — beloved on account of the fathers;

²⁹因为　神的恩赏和呼召是决不会反悔的。

²⁹for unrepented of [are] the gifts and the calling of God;

³⁰正如你们从前不顺服　神，现在却因着他们的不顺服，你们倒蒙了怜悯；

³⁰for as ye also once did not believe in God, and now did find kindness by the unbelief of these:

³¹照样，他们因着你们所蒙的怜悯，现在也不顺服，使他们现在也可以蒙怜悯。

³¹so also these now did not believe, that in your kindness they also may find kindness;

³²因为　神把所有的人都圈在不顺服之中，为了要怜悯所有的人。

³²for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.

³³颂赞　神　神的丰富、智慧和知识，是多么高深啊！他的判断是多么难测，他的道路是多么难寻！

³³O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

³⁴“谁知道主的心意，谁作过他的参谋？”

³⁴for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor?

³⁵“谁先给了他，以致他要偿还呢？”

³⁵or who did first give to Him, and it shall be given back to him again?

³⁶因为万有都是本于他，倚靠他，归于他。愿荣耀归给他，直到永远。阿们。

³⁶because of Him, and through Him, and to Him [are] the all things; to Him [is] the glory — to the ages. Amen.