Osee 2:1
Say ye to your brethren: You are my people, and to your sister: Thou hast obtained mercy.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dicite fratribus vestris : Populus meus ; et sorori vestræ : Misericordiam consecuta.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἴπατε τῷ ἀδελφῷ ὑμῶν Λαός μου, καὶ τῇ ἀδελφῇ ὑμῶν Ἐλεημένη.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Osee 2:3
- אִמְר֥וּ לַאֲחֵיכֶ֖ם עַמִּ֑י וְלַאֲחֽוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם רֻחָֽמָה
Haydock's commentary
Brethren, &c. Or, call your brethren, My people; and your sister, Her that hath obtained mercy. This is connected with the latter end of the foregoing chapter, and relates to the converts of Israel. (Challoner)
I seemed to have abandoned them at the great day of carnage; (Haydock) but I will still receive (Calmet) this portion of my people, as well as Juda. (Haydock)
Disdain not to call them brethren. More of the ten tribes than of the others embraced the faith of Christ, and more Gentiles than Jews became converts. (Worthington)
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 John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Homily XVI on Rom. ix. 1
This promise then and word of God it was that fashioned Isaac, and begat him. For what if a womb was its instrument and the belly of a woman? Since it was not the power of the belly, but the might of the promise that begat the child. Thus are we also gendered by the words of God. Since in the pool of water it is the words of God which generate and fashion us. For it is by being baptized into the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost that we are gendered. And this birth is not of nature, but of the promise of God. ( John iii. 3 ; Eph. v. 26 ; James i. 18 ; 1 Pet. iii. 21 .) For as after first foretelling the birth of Isaac, He then accomplished it; so ours also He had announced before, many ages ago by all the Prophets, and afterwards brought it to pass. …