“Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?”
As he says in Hosea: 'I will call them "my people" who are not my people; and I will call her "my loved one" who is not my loved one.' — The citation of Hosea 2:23 applies Israel's restoration oracle to a new people: those formerly not (οὐ) God's people become his people; those not beloved become loved ones (ἀγαπητή, agapētē). The Gentiles, once excluded, are engrafted into covenant mercy.
Church Fathers on Romans 9:24
“What if God, willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory, even us, whom He has chosen, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles.” What he means is somewhat as follows. Pharaoh was a vessel of wrath, that is, a man who by his own hard-heartedness had kindled the…
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