`And he said to him, Child, thou art always with me, and all my things are thine;
but when thy son -- this one who did devour thy living with harlots -- came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.
but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'
and the servant doth not remain in the house -- to the age, the son doth remain -- to the age;
I 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:
or who did first give to Him, and it shall be given back to him again?
who are Israelites, whose `is' the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,