For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively.”
28. For I will finish and shorten the matter, etc. Sermonem enim consummans et abbrevians,” etc.; Λόγον γὰρ, etc. It is literally the Septuagint except in two instances: Paul puts in γὰρ, and substitutes ἐπὶ τὢς γὢς for ἐν τὣ οἰκουμένὟ ὅλὟ.
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
And as Esaias said before,.... In the beginning of his prophecy, in Isa 1:9. Except the Lord of sabaoth had left us a seed; the title and character the great God goes by here, is "Lord of sabaoth", that is, "of hosts", or "armies"; the Septuagint often leave the word untranslated, as here and elsewhere, as in Sa1 1:11.