Romans 9:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

As he saith also in Osee— Here are two quotations out of the prophet Hosea,—first, ch. Romans 1:10 where, immediately after God had rejected the ten tribes, Romans 9:9. (Ye are not my people, and I will not be your God,) it is added, Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered: And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. As if he had said, "The decrease of numbers in the visible church, by God's utterly taking away the ten tribes, Romans 9:6 shall be well supplied by what shall afterwards come to pass by calling the Gentiles into it. They who had been the people of God should become Lo-ammi,—not my people: on the contrary, they who had been Lo-ammi,—not my people, should become the children of the living God." Again, Hosea 2:23. I will sow her [the Jewish church] unto me in the earth; alluding, probably, to the dispersion of the Jews over all the Roman empire; which proved a fruitful cause of preparing the Gentiles for the reception of the Gospel; And, or moreover, I will have mercy on her [the body of believing Gentiles] that had not obtained mercy. See Jeffery's "True Grounds," p. 149.; and the notes on Hosea.