²⁵As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not obtained mercy; one that hath obtained mercy.

²⁶And it shalt be in the place where it was said unto them: you are not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God.

²⁷And Isaias cried out concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

²⁸For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.

²⁹And Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom and we had been like unto Gomorrha.

³⁰What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who followed not after justice have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith.

³¹But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.

³²Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.

³³As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and a rock of scandal. And whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded.

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