Osee 1:9
And he said: Call his name, Not my people: for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et dixit : Voca nomen ejus, Non populus meus, quia vos non populus meus, et ego non ero vester.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Κάλεσον τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Οὐ λαός μου, διότι ὑμεῖς οὐ λαός μου καὶ ἐγὼ οὐκ εἰμὶ ὑμῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶר קְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ לֹ֣א עַמִּ֑י כִּ֤י אַתֶּם֙ לֹ֣א עַמִּ֔י וְאָנֹכִ֖י לֹֽא אֶהְיֶ֥ה לָכֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
Not my people. Lohammi. (Challoner)
The kingdom of Israel seemed to be quite cast off; and in captivity it was hardly distinguished from other nations. Juda was preserved longer, and at all times was under the divine protection. Ezechiel, Daniel, &c., comforted the people in the worst of their afflictions. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Irenaeus Against Heresies: Book IV, Chapter XX. That one God formed all
12. However, it was not by means of visions alone which were seen, and words which were proclaimed, but also in actual works, that He was beheld by the prophets, in order that through them He might prefigure and show forth future events beforehand. For this reason did Hosea the prophet take “a wife of whoredoms,” prophesying by means of the action, “that in committing fornication the earth should fornicate from the Lord ,” that is, the men who are upon the earth; and from men of this stamp it will be God’s good pleasure to take out a Church which shall be sanctified by fellowship with His Son, just as that woman was sanctified by intercourse with the prophet. …
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John, John 1.41,42
But Peter makes no reply to these words; as yet he knew nothing clearly, but still was learning. And observe, that not even the prediction is fully set forth; for Jesus did not say, “I will change thy name to Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church,” but, “Thou shalt be called Cephas.” The former speech would have expressed too great authority and power; for Christ does not immediately nor at first declare all His power, but speaks for a while in a humbler tone; and so, when He had given the proof of His Divinity, He puts it more authoritatively, saying, “Blessed art thou, Simon, because My Father hath revealed it to thee”; and again, “Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church.” ( Matt. xvi. 17, 18 .) Him therefore He so named, and James and his brother He called “sons of thunder.” ( Mark iii. …