24. For we are the people he called, not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles.
25. This is what he says in the book of Hosea:“The people who were not mineI will call ‘My People’.The nation that I did not loveI will call ‘My Beloved’.
26. And in the very place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’there they will be called the children of the living God.”
27. And Isaiah exclaims about Israel: “Even if the people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand by the sea, yet only a few of them will be saved;