can be neither measured nor numbered; and in the place where it was said to them: ‘You are not my people,’ it shall be said to them, ‘Sons of the living God’ ” (Hos. 1:10). Here, in two separate places, prophecies which in their Old Testament context refer to literal Israel are in the New Testament applied to the (Gentile) church. In other words, Paul sees the spiritual fulfillment of Hosea 1:10 and 2:23 in the church. It follows inescapably that the salvation of the Gentile church is the fulfillment
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