Romans 9:26

“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ There they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”

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WEBBE

“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”

BSB

and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

KJV

And 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.

ASV

And it shall be, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God.

BBE

And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.

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καὶ kai and G2532 ἔσται estai It will happen that G1510 ἐν en in G1722 τῷ tō the G3588 τόπῳ topō place G5117 οὗ hou where G3757 ἐρρέθη errethē it was said G2046 αὐτοῖς autois to them G846 οὐ ou Not G3756 λαός laos people G2992 μου mou of Mine [are] G3165 ὑμεῖς humeis You yourselves G4771 ἐκεῖ ekei there G1563 κληθήσονται klēthēsontai they will be called G2564 υἱοὶ huioi sons G5207 θεοῦ theou of God G2316 ζῶντος zōntos [the] living G2198

The early church

"For even they shall be called," he says, "the children of the living God." But if they should assert that this was said of those of the Jews who believed, even then the argument stands. For if with those who after so many benefits were hard-hearted and estranged, and had lost their being as a people, so great a change was wrought, what is there to prevent even those who were not estranged after being taken to Him, but were originally aliens, from being called, and, provided they obey, from being counted worthy of the same blessings?
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Romans

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 25–29

The rejecting of the Jews, and the taking in the Gentiles, were foretold in the Old Testament. It tends very much to the clearing of a truth, to observe how the Scripture is fulfilled in it. It is a wonder of Divine power and mercy that there are any saved: for even those left to be a seed, if God had dealt with them according to their sins, had perished with the rest. This great truth this Scripture teaches us. Even among the vast number of professing Christians it is to be feared that only a remnant will be saved.

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