For though thy people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, a countless multitude, yet a remnant of them shall return, unfortunately only a remnant, the great mass being blinded and obdurate, Romans 9:27; the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness, literally, "destruction is firmly decided upon, righteousness coming along as a flood. " God's punitive justice overflows and submerges the unrepentant mass of the people in the judgment of destruction decreed upon it.

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