{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6776","native_reference":{"book_number":350,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":10,"verse_to":10},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Because Hosea is such a profound prophet, it is no easy matter to get at his meaning. Still, I must keep my promise and quote something from him at this point. He says, \"And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people'; it shall be said to them, 'You are sons of the living God.' \" The apostles themselves understood this text as a prophecy of the calling of the Gentiles, who were previously not God's people. And because the Gentiles are spiritually sons of Abraham and correctly therefore alluded to as Israel, Hosea goes on to say, \"And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the earth.\" Now to add one word of explanation to this text would be to lose the savor of Hosea's prophetic style.<br/><i>— CITY OF GOD 18:28</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: \"And the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, that cannot be measured, nor numbered: and it shall be in the place where it shall be said unto them, Ye are not my people: there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.\" We read of the rejection of the ten tribes, and of the unmeasurable Israel, no longer the people of God, subject to perpetual indignation. Now we learn how the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel are equally gathered together, and place themselves under one head or principality (\"Al.\" beginning), and ascend from the earth, and in the place where previously it was said, \"Not my people,\" they shall be called the sons of the living God, and this will happen because the day of Jezreel is great. To the doubting and wavering in various opinions, the statement of the Apostle Paul writing to the Romans occurs: \"And if God, wishing to show his wrath and make his power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory in the vessels of mercy he prepared for glory, whom he also called us, not only from among the Jews, but also from the Gentiles.\" As Hosea says, \"I will call those not my people, my people, and those not beloved, beloved.\" And they will be called the sons of the living God in the place where it was said to them, \"You are not my people.\" But Isaiah cries out for Israel: \"If the number of the sons of Israel were like the sand of the sea, the remainder will be saved.\" Because the word is ending and shortening in righteousness, \"for the Lord will shorten the word upon the earth, as Isaiah foretold\" (Cap. I, 9): \"Unless the Lord Sabaoth had kept us a seed, we would have been as Sodom and Gomorrah. What then shall we say: That the Gentiles who did not follow righteousness have attained righteousness?\" But righteousness which is of faith: but Israel, following the law of righteousness, did not come to the law of righteousness\" (Rom. IX, 22 seqq.). Therefore, the blessed Apostle, taking testimony from the prophet Hosea and expounding upon the calling of the Gentiles, and the faith of those from the Jews who wished to believe, cut away all difficulty of interpretation for us, affirming that it was completed in the times of Christ, that is, that twelve tribes would be chosen in Israel, that is, all the people of the Jews, and in Judah those who confess Jesus as Lord from among the Gentiles. But if someone alien to the faith of Christ, and not receiving the authority of the New Testament, but responding from the number of circumcision, should say that the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel sound twelve tribes and ten, about which we have often spoken, and in this giving their hand, we will show nothing of our faith being harmed. \"But after the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, dispersed throughout the whole world, and the multitude of the people shall have overcome every account, then shall Israel, who is even now captive and before was said to be without mercy and not my people, with the two tribes, that is, Juda and Benjamin, of which a great part believed in Christ, have permission to come to an agreement, so that faith may unite those who were separated in body, and they may have one head and prince, of whom Ezechiel wrote: 'And one prince shall be in the midst of them, my servant David, and they shall rise from the dead,' that is, Juda and Israel, who were dead in unfaithfulness.\" (Ezechiel 34:24) And all these things will happen, because the day of the seed of God, which is called \"Christ,\" is great. From this it is clear that the blood of Naboth ((or Nabutha)) preceded in Jezrael, so that the truth would be fulfilled in Christ. For in this, and not in that, the great day of Jezrael is, of which it is said: \"This is the day which the Lord hath made; let us be glad and rejoice therein.\" (Psalms 118:24) The third interpretation that we have undertaken, is to be explained as referring to heretics for Israel, and to men of the Church for Judah, and means that, after the Lord shall have come in His glory to reign, those who were once called not His people shall be called the sons of the living God, when they shall have been united with the Jews, that is, with the Church of God, and shall have one Head, Christ, and shall have ascended from the earth, that is, from earthly senses and the humility of the letter, and shall have received the great day of the seed of God. For not having mercy\", that is, \"without pity\", is reported in some copies as \"not beloved\". But the more true copies have \"without mercy\", especially because God makes a distinction between Israel, whom he does not have mercy on, and says \"But I will have mercy on the house of Judah.<br/><i>— Commentary on Hosea 1:10</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"34eaa6eacf20006209328af1b4b1472f10a70415b349eb4f43fa27bd977259bb","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6776,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"2b7d63bf8a6dd94af1a032d393c8d13fd7569d842ba5926bef729d4ae682356f","translator":null,"work":null}