25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.



Ver. 25. And her beloved] Jer_12:7. God calls the Church the beloved of his soul, or (as the Septuagint and Vulgate read it) his beloved soul, ôçí øõ÷çí ôçí çãáðçìåíçí .