 consists, then, of the church, of all who have repented and believed the good news. The Gentile has been grafted in, and the day will come when there will be a great resurgence of Jewish people who then are embraced within the unfolding drama of God's purposes. It is a wonderful story. So it's not so much that he's saying, I've rejected the Jews and I've gone with the Gentile thing. What he's saying is, I've rejected those who stumble over my Son.