OLD TESTAMENT

Hosea 1:10

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Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

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Verse 10. The number, and so forth that is of the true Israelites, the children of the Church of Christ. Challoner.—This is the primary sense. Romans 9:25. Yet the Israelites are here also assured of their return from captivity. Calmet.—God. Among many sinners, some are chosen. Worthington.

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