JETS 43:4 (Dec 00) p. 714 the present situation of Israel by using the phrase “at this present time” (ἐν τῷ νῦν καιρῷ). In the preceding verses Paul illustrates his point with the example of Elijah. Just as in Elijah’s day there was a remnant, so now there is a remnant within Israel. God did not reject his people during the days of Elijah and has not done so now.21 Horne contends that the import of Paul’s argument in using the situation in Elijah’s day “is simply that the salvation of a small