As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”
The prophet spoke of Israel cast off and then restored, yet Paul applies it to the Gentiles. Some solve this by saying God did the same for the Jews formerly as He now does for the Gentiles. But I find it more fitting to see the prophet's consolation aimed at the whole kingdom of Christ, scattered across the world, not the Jews alone.
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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.
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Commenting on Romans 9:25-29
In the very places where idolatry reigned and men were declared not God's people, there they shall be called children of the living God, children not of dead idols but of the living God. By effectual calling, the Spirit bears witness that they are truly His, and by faith they claim and enjoy this privilege.
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