“As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.”
'It is just as he said elsewhere: "Those who were not my people I will call "my people"; and the one who is not loved I will call "my loved one."' — The reiteration of the Hosea citation emphasizes the reversal: the Gentiles—historically outside the covenant—are now claimed as God's own. Election's boundary is redrawn.
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