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25 Witness of the Old Testament. As indeed he says in Hosea,

“Those who were not my people
    I will call ‘my people,’
and her who was not beloved
    I will call ‘beloved.’
26 And in the very place
    where it was said to them,
    ‘You are not my people,’
there they shall be called
    children of the living God.”

27 And Isaiah cries out in regard to Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites
    will be like the sand of the sea,
    only a remnant of them will be saved.
28 For the sentence of the Lord on the earth
    will be executed quickly and with finality.”

29 Isaiah had foretold previously:

“If the Lord of hosts
    had not left us any descendants,
we would have become like Sodom
    and been made like Gomorrah.”

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