Romans 11:14

He would try if in any way (εἰπως; comp. Php 3:11) he may reach the end, by dint of success, of awakening his people, whom he loves as his own flesh, from their torpor, should it only be by jealousy? Here, as in Romans 11:11, he uses the expression which Moses had employed (Romans 10:19). No doubt he does not deceive himself; he does not reckon on a conversion of Israel en masse before the last times; but he would like at least, he adds, to save some of them, as first-fruits of the harvest. But we are not at the goal. That even is only a means. The final aim is declared in Romans 11:15.