and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
26. I will call them my people which are not a people This is said with respect to the divorce, which God had already made with the people, by depriving them of all honor, so that they did not excel other nations.
Hosea foretold that those who were not God's people would be called His people, and the unloved would become beloved. A blessed change: former badness is no bar to present grace. Wherever the Gentiles scatter over the earth, God owns them as His children without requiring them to join the Jewish nation.
AI summary
Commenting on Romans 9:25-29
Esaias crieth concerning Israel,.... The apostle having produced proper testimonies in proof of the calling of the Gentiles, proceeds to mention others; showing, that some few of the Jews also were to be called, according to prophecy, founded upon divine predestination; which, though they are full proofs of the calling of some from among the Jews, yet at the same time suggest the casting off...