Romans 9:27

Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

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Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

BSB

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

KJV

Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

ASV

And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:

BBE

And Isaiah says about Israel, Even if the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, only a small part will get salvation:

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Ἠσαΐας Ēsaias Isaiah G2268 δὲ de also G1161 κράζει krazei cries out G2896 ὑπὲρ huper concerning G5228 τοῦ tou (the) G3588 Ἰσραήλ Israēl Israel G2474 ἐὰν ean Though G1437 ᾖ ē shall be G1510 ὁ ho the G3588 ἀριθμὸς arithmos number G706 τῶν tōn of the G3588 υἱῶν huiōn sons G5207 Ἰσραὴλ Israēl of Israel G2474 ὡς hōs as G5613 ἡ hē the G3588 ἄμμος ammos sand G285 τῆς tēs of the G3588 θαλάσσης thalassēs sea G2281 τὸ to [only] the G3588 ὑπόλειμμα hupoleimma vestige G9577 σωθήσεται sōthēsetai will be saved G4982

The early church

"For Esaias," he says, "crieth concerning Israel." That is, speaks out boldly, and uses no dissimulation. Why then lay a charge against us, when they afore declared the same thing with more than trumpet's loudness? And what does Isaiah cry? "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved." Do you see that he too does not say that all are to be saved, but that those that are worthy shall? For I regard not the multitude, he means, nor does a race diffused so far distress me, but those only do I save that yield themselves worthy of it. And he does not mention the "sand of the sea" without a reason, but to remind them of the ancient promise whereof they had made themselves unworthy. Why then are you troubled, as though the promise had failed, when all the Prophets show that it is not all that are to be saved?
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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