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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
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Intertextuality Pair

Romans 9:26 → Hosea 1:10

Quotation

Later text

Romans 9:26BSB

and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

Earlier text

Hosea 1:10BSB

Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

Significance

Paul quotes Hosea 1:10 (LXX 2:1) in Romans 9:26, immediately following his quotation of Hosea 2:23 in verse 25, to demonstrate God's sovereign freedom to include Gentiles among His covenant people. In Hosea's original context, the promise that those called "not my people" (Lo-Ammi) would be called "sons of the living God" (huioi theou zōntos) referred to the restoration of the northern kingdom after judgment. Paul applies this eschatologically to the inclusion of Gentiles in the new covenant community — a move warranted by the universal scope of the promise language "in the very place where it was said to them." The shift from Hosea 2:23 (v. 25) to Hosea 1:10 (v. 26) is significant: the first text speaks of restored covenant relationship ("my people"), while the second escalates to divine sonship ("sons of the living God"). This escalation pattern reflects the already/not-yet framework of new covenant fulfillment.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Covenant Succession (Inheritance and Election) Trajectory Table