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The Great Bible 1539
| 11:1 | I saye then: hath God cast awaye hys people? God forbyd. For euen I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the trybe of Beniamin, |
| 11:2 | God hath not cast awaye his people, which he knewe before. Wote ye not, what the scripture sayth of Helias, how he maketh intercession to God agaynst Israell, saying: |
| 11:3 | Lorde, they haue kylled thy Prophetes, and dygged downe thyne alters: and I am lefte alone, and they seke my lyfe. |
| 11:4 | But what sayth the answere of God vnto hym? I haue reserued vnto my selfe seuen thousande men, which haue not bowed the knee to the ymage of Ball. |
| 11:5 | Euen so also at thys tyme is ther a remanaunt lefte accordynge to the eleccyon of grace. |
| 11:6 | If it be of grace, then is it not now of workes. For then grace is nomore grace. But If it be of workes, then is it now no grace. For then were deseruynge nomore deseruynge. |
| 11:7 | What then? Israel hath not obtayned that which he seketh: but the eleccyon hath obtayned it. The remnaunt are blynded |
| 11:8 | accordynge as it is written. God hath geuen them the sprete of vnquyetnes: eyes that they shuld not se, & eares that they shuld not heare, euen vnto this daye. |
| 11:9 | And Dauid sayth: Let their table be made a snare to take them with all, and an occasyon to fall, and a reward vnto them. |
| 11:10 | Let theyr eyes be blynded that they se not: and bowe thou downe their backe allwaye. |
| 11:11 | I saye then: haue they therfore stombled, that they shuld vtterly fall awaye together. God forbyd: but thorowe theyr fall is saluacyon happened vnto the Gentyls, for to prouoke them withall. |
| 11:12 | Wherfore yf the fall of them be the ryches of the worlde, and the mynisshynge of them the ryches of the gentyls: How moch more their perfectnesse? |
| 11:13 | I speake to you gentyls, in as moch as I am the Apostle of the gentyls, I wyll magnify myne office, |
| 11:14 | yf by any meane I maye prouoke them which are my flesshe, and myght saue some of them. |
| 11:15 | For yf the castynge awaye of them, be the reconcylynge of the world: what shall the receauynge of them be, but lyfe agayne from deeth? |
| 11:16 | For yf one pece be holy, the whole heepe is holy. And yf the rote be holy, the braunches shalbe holy also. |
| 11:17 | Though some of the braunches be broken of, and thou beynge a wylde olyue tree, wast graft in among them, and made partaker of the rote and fatnes of the olyue tree, |
| 11:18 | boast not thy selfe agaynst the braunches. For yf thou boast thy selfe, thou bearest not the rote, but the rote the. |
| 11:19 | Thou wilt saye then: the braunches are broken of that I myght be graft in. |
| 11:20 | Thou sayest well: because of vnbeleue they were broken of, and thou stodest stedfast in fayth. |
| 11:21 | Be not hye mynded, but feare: for seynge that God spared not the naturall braunches, take hede, lest it come to passe that he spare not the also. |
| 11:22 | Beholde therfore the kyndnes and rygorousnes of God: on them which fell, rygorousnes. but towardes the, kyndnes: yf thou continue in hys kyndnes. Or els thou shalt be hewen of, |
| 11:23 | and they agayne yf they byde not styll in vnbelefe, shalbe graffed in agayne. For God is of power to graffe them in agayne. |
| 11:24 | For yf thou wast cut out of a naturall wylde olyue tree, and wast graffed contrary to nature in a true olyue tree: how moch more shall the naturall braunches be graffed in their awne olyue tree agayne. |
| 11:25 | I wolde not that this secrete shulde be hyd from you my brethren (lest ye shuld be wyse in youre awne consaytes) that partly blyndnes is happened in Israell, vntyll the fulnes of the gentyls be come in: |
| 11:26 | and so all Israel shalbe saued. As it is wrytten. There shall come out of Syon he that doth delyuer, and shall turne awaye vngodlynes from Iacob. |
| 11:27 | And thys is my couenaunt vnto them, when I shall take awaye their synnes. |
| 11:28 | As concernynge the gospell they are enemies for youre sakes: but as touchyng the eleccyon they are loued for the fathers sakes. |
| 11:29 | For verely, the gyftes and callynge of God are soch, that it cannot repent hym of them: |
| 11:30 | for loke, as ye in tyme passed haue not beleued God, yet haue now obtained mercy thorow their vnbelefe: |
| 11:31 | euen so now haue they not beleued the mercy which is happened vnto you: that they also maye obtayne mercy. |
| 11:32 | For God had wrapped all nacyons in vnbeleue, that he myght haue mercy on all. |
| 11:33 | O the depnes of the ryches both of the wysdome and knowledge of God: how vnsercheable are his iudgementes, & his wayes past fyndynge out; |
| 11:34 | For who hath knowen the mynde of the Lorde? Or who hath bene hys counseller? |
| 11:35 | other who hath geuen vnto hym fyrst, and he shalbe recompensed agayne? |
| 11:36 | For of hym, and thorow hym, and for hym are all thynges: To hym be glorye for euer. Amen. |
The Great Bible 1539
The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General. In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it."