“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:”
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: 'Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved. — The citation of Isaiah 10:22 announces a distinction: Israel's potential abundance is offset by the actual σῶσις (sōsis, "salvation") of a λεῖμμα (leimma, "remnant") alone. Election operates within Israel as well: not all Israel is saved.
Church Fathers on Romans 9:27
“For Esaias,” he says, “cries concerning Israel.” That is, speaks out boldly, and uses no dissimulation. Why then lay a charge against us, when they afore declared the same thing with more than trumpet's loudness? And what does Isaiah cry? “Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.” Isaiah 10:22 Do you see that he too does not say that all are to be saved, but that those that are worthy shall? For I regard not the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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