Hosea 2:23 (WEB)
I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘You are My God!’”
Fathers and councils · 4
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…shall put on incorruption;” and proclaim in what sense [God] says, “That is a people who was not a people; and she is beloved who was not beloved;” and in what sense He says that “more are the children of her that was desolate, than of her who possessed a husband.”” — editor's note: Hos. ii. 23; Rom. ix. 25.
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Tertullian
“For why should God, the founder of the universe, the Governor of the whole world, the Fashioner of humanity, the Sower of universal nations be believed to have given a law through Moses to one people, and not be said to have assigned it to all nations?” — editor's note: Comp. Jer. xxxi. 27 (in LXX. it is xxxviii. 27); Hos. ii. 23; Zech. x. 9; Matt. xiii. 31–43.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For as the Father called the Gentiles to the Church, saying: “I will call her My people which was not My people, and her beloved who was not beloved;” and elsewhere: “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations,” so, too, the Lord Jesus said that Paul was chosen by Him to call forth and gather…” — editor's note: Hos. ii. 23.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For it shall be, in that place in which it shall be called not my people, they shall be called the sons of the living God.”” — editor's note: Hos. ii. 23; i. 10.
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Cross-references · 14
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Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
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Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.20.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.20.
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Romans 9:15 takes up the words of Hosea 2:23 (9 words in common).