19. That two peoples were foretold, the
elder and the younger; that is, the old people of the Jews, and the new
one which should consist of us.
In Genesis: “And the Lord said unto
Rebekah, Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be
separated from thy belly; and the one people shall overcome the other
people; and the elder shall serve the younger.”
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Also in Hosea: “I
will call them my people that are not my people, and her beloved that
was not beloved. For it shall be, in that place in which it shall
be called not my people, they shall be called the sons of the living
God.”
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Gen. xxv. 23
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Hos. ii. 23; i. 10
.