“And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.”
'And in the very place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," there they will be called "children of the living God."' — Another Hosea citation (1:10) announces the resurrection-like transformation: where rejection stood, adoption (υἱοί, hyioi, "sons") of the living God emerges. The place of negation becomes the place of affirmation.
Church Fathers on Romans 9:26
“For even they shall be called,” he says, “the children of the living God.” But if they should assert that this was said of those of the Jews who believed, even then the argument stands. For if with those who after so many benefits were hard-hearted and estranged, and had lost their being as a people, so great a change was wrought, what is there to prevent even those who were not estranged after being taken to Him, but were originally aliens, from being called, and, provided…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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