26. And—another quotation from Ho 1:10.
it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children—"called sons"
of the living God—The expression, "in the place where … there," seems designed only to give greater emphasis to the gracious change here announced, from divine exclusion to divine admission to the privileges of the people of God.