...God of Jacob is represented as asking. "I said how shall 1 put thee among the people ? How shall I call them my people which were not my people, and her beloved which was not beloved." The one only answer to the inquiry is supplied by the terms of the covenant of grace. " I will put...

...doctrine of free grace, that the ' purpose of God according to election might stand,' as he saith, ' I will call them my people which were not my people ;' and the Jews having as it were despised their birthright (see Acts xiii. 46), this spiritual sense is undoubtedly...

...us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles ? As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people ; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people ; there shall...

...only, but also from the Gentiles? As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall be, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be...

...epigraph's audacious appropriation of God's voice from Hosea, quoted by Paul in Romans, chapter 9: "I will call them my people / which were not my people; / and her beloved / which was not beloved." . . . The community that is sought in Beloved involves as its essence a moral and imaginative expansion...

...Middle Passage, and so the very idea of using that quote from the Bible at the beginning of the novel, "I will call them my people,/ which were not my people;/ and her beloved,/ which was not beloved," reminds us that African-Americans themselves are syncretic, from Africa that is, that they're all different...

...her daughter, who is known as "Beloved." At the beginning of the novel is a Bible verse, Romans 9:25: "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved." The biblical writer of this passage is Paul, who is rephrasing a verse from Hosea 2:23. Just as Paul...

...writers. For example. in Romans 9:24-26 Paul speaks of the Gentiles, "As he saith also in Osee (Hosea), I will call them my people, which were not my people: and her beloved which was not beloved'. In Romans 9:24-26, Paul is quoting from Hosea 1:10 which was addressed to Old Testament Israel. Hosea...

...like that of Obasan, comes from the Bible, and speaks of an act of renaming, recalling, reclaiming: "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved." These words from Romans 9.25 themselves recall God's promise of reclamation as described in the second...

...epigraph's audacious appropriation of God's voice from Hosca, quoted by Paul in Romans, chapter 9: "I will call them my people, / which were not my people; /and her beloved, / which was not beloved." Laying claim to a past often serves simply to create an ancestry for oneself. What makes this juxtaposition...