Worsley [1770], THE NEW TESTAMENT OR NEW COVENANT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated from the Greek ACCORDING TO The Present Idiom of the English Tongue. With NOTES and REFERENCES interspersed, as occasion required, to confirm and illustrate the more literal or various Renderings given at the bottom of each page; by which even they, who do not understand the Original, may often judge for themselves of the justness and propriety of the Translation. By the late Mr. JOHN WORSLEY, of Hertford (Printed by R. Hett, LONDON) [word count] [B18100].
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1 I say then, Hath God cast off his people? God forbid!
for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham,
of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast off his
people, whom He foreknew. Do ye not know what
the scripture saith of Elias? how he complains to God
against Israel,
3 saying, “Lord, they have slain thy prophets,
and digged down thine altars; and I am left
alone, and they seek my life.”
4 But what saith the
oracle of God to him? “I have reserved to myself
seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to
Baal.”
5 And so in the present time also there is a remnant
according to the election of grace.
6 And if by
grace, it is no more of works: for then grace is no
longer grace. But if of works, it is no more note grace:
for then work is no longer work.
7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he
sought: but the note elect have obtained it, and the rest
were blinded,
8 (according as it is written, God hath
given them a spirit of slumber, that their eyes could not
see and their ears could not hear,) even unto this day.
9 And David saith, Let their table become a snare, and
a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompence unto
them.
10 Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see,
and always bow down their back.
11 Say I then, Have they stumbled, that they should fall
irrecoverably? God forbid! but this I say, that by their
fall salvation is come to the Gentiles to excite them to
emulation.
12 Now if their fall be the riches of the world,
and their diminution be the riches of the Gentiles, how
much more will their fulness be?
13 For I speak to you
Gentiles: inasmuch indeed as I am the apostle of the
Gentiles,
14 I extol my office, note that if possible I may excite
to emulation my brethren according to the flesh, and
may save some of them:
15 for if the rejecting of them be
the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving
them again be but life from the dead?
16 Now if the first-fruits be holy, so is the whole note heap:
and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 But if
some of the branches were broken off, and thou note a
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wild-olive wert grafted in among them, and art made
a partaker together with them of the root and fatness
of the olive; boast not against the branches:
18 and if
thou boastest, remember thou bearest not the root,
but the root thee.
19 Wilt thou say then, The branches
were broken off, that I might be grafted in?
20 Well;
they were broken off for their infidelity, and thou
standest by faith: therefore be not high-minded but fear.
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, neither
would He spare thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness
and severity of God: towards them that fell, severity;
but towards thee, goodness; if thou continue in his
goodness: for else thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they,
if they do not continue in unbelief, shall be grafted in:
for God is able again to graft them in.
24 For if thou
wert cut out of the wild olive, which was natural to thee,
and contrary to nature were grafted into a good olive;
how much more shall these who are the natural branches,
be grafted into their own olive-tree?
25 For I would not have you, brethren, to be ignorant
of this mystery, (least ye should be wise in your own
eyes) that blindness in part is befallen Israel, till the
fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel
shall be saved, as it is written, “The deliverer shall
come out of Sion, and shall turn away impiety from
Jacob:
27 and this is my covenant with them, when I
take away their sins.”
28 As to the gospel indeed they are
enemies on your account, but as to the election they are
beloved on account of the fathers.
29 For the gifts and
calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as ye were
heretofore disobedient to God, but have now obtained
mercy note in their disobedience:
31 so these also note in your
mercy have now been disobedient, that they themselves
might be the objects of mercy.
32 For God hath included
them all in the charge of disobedience, that He might
have mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and
knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgements,
and his ways not to be traced out!
34 For who
hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been
his counsellor?
35 Or who hath first given to Him? and
it shall be returned note.
36 For of Him, and through
Him, and for Him, are all things. To Him be glory
for ever. Amen.
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Worsley [1770], THE NEW TESTAMENT OR NEW COVENANT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated from the Greek ACCORDING TO The Present Idiom of the English Tongue. With NOTES and REFERENCES interspersed, as occasion required, to confirm and illustrate the more literal or various Renderings given at the bottom of each page; by which even they, who do not understand the Original, may often judge for themselves of the justness and propriety of the Translation. By the late Mr. JOHN WORSLEY, of Hertford (Printed by R. Hett, LONDON) [word count] [B18100].
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