²⁵As also in Hosea He saith, ‘I will call what is not My people—My people; and her not beloved—Beloved, ²⁶and it shall be—in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.’ ²⁷And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, ‘If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved; ²⁸for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land. ²⁹and according as Isaiah saith before, ‘Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.’

³⁰What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that is of faith, ³¹and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive; ³²wherefore? because—not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling, ³³according as it hath been written, ‘Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.’

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