Vv. 26. The second saying quoted (Hos 1:10) is attached to the preceding as if it followed it immediately in the prophet. More than once in the following Chapter s we find this combination of originally distinct sayings. Some apply the expression in Hosea: in the place where, to the land of Samaria, in the meaning that God there pronounced the rejection of the people. In that case, Paul, in applying this saying to the Gentiles, would have perverted it entirely from its meaning. But is it not more natural to apply this word: the place where, to the strange land where the Jews were long captive, and as it were abandoned of God? Was it not there God said to them by the voice of fact during long ages: “Ye are not my people”? Is it not there that they will begin anew to feel the effects of grace when God shall visit them, and recall them as well as the Gentiles, with whom they are at present confounded?

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