Therefore I say, Whether they offended so, that they should fall down? God forbid. But by the guilt of them health is made to heathen men, that they pursue them.
say thou to them, I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked man, but that the wicked man be converted from his ways, and live; be ye converted from your worst ways, and why shall ye die, the house of Israel?
But when they gainsaid and blasphemed, he shook away [or shook off] his clothes, and said to them, Your blood be on your head; I shall be clean from henceforth, and I shall go to heathen men.
But I say, Whether Israel knew not? First Moses saith, I shall lead you to envy, that ye be no folk [or into not a folk]; that ye be an unwise folk, I shall send you into wrath.
That if the guilt of them be riches of the world, and the making less [or the diminishing] of them be riches of heathen men, how much more the plenty of them?