²⁵As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My people; and the-not-beloved Beloved. ²⁶And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called Sons of the living God. ²⁷But Esaias cries concerning Israel, Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved: ²⁸for he is bringing the matter to an end, and (cutting it short in righteousness; because) a cutting short of the matter will the Lord accomplish upon the earth. ²⁹And according as Esaias said before, Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and made like even as Gomorrha.

³⁰What then shall we say? That they of the nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but the righteousness that is on the principle of faith. ³¹But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to that law. ³²Wherefore? Because it was not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone, ³³according as it is written, Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

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