26And 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.
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Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. …
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. …
I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-29)Having explained the promise, and proved the divine sovereignty, the apostle here shows how the rejection of the Jews, and the taking in of the Gentiles, were foretold in the Old Testament, and therefore must needs be very well consistent with the promise made to the fathers under the Old Testament. It tends very much to the clearing of a truth to observe how the scripture is fulfilled in it. The…
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