And Jehovah said, I will also turn away Judah from My face, as I turned away Israel, and I will reject this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the house of which I have said, My name shall be there.
Indeed I am a man, a Jew having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been trained according to the exactness of the ancestral law, being a zealot of God, even as you all are today.
I say, then, Did not they stumble that they might fall? Let it not be! But by their deviation came salvation to the nations, to provoke them to jealousy.
Let it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; even as it is written, “That You should be justified in Your words, and will overcome in Your being judged.” LXXPsa. 50:6; MT-Psa. 51:4