Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
27. And Isaiah exclaims, etc. He proceeds now to the second part, with which he was unwilling to begin, lest he should too much exasperate their minds. And it is not without a wise contrivance, that he adduces Isaiah as exclaiming, not, speaking, in order that he might excite more attention.
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
For he will finish the work,.... This passage has some difficulty in it: some, instead of "work", read "account", and suppose it is an allusion to the balancing of accounts, when the remainder is cut off, which commonly is but little; and so regards the small number of the Jews that shall be called and saved, as before: others read it "the word", and differently...