Notwithstanding Israel's failure as a nation, there remained among them a goodly remnant of such as should be saved. 377 At the time of the Saviour's advent there were faithful men and women who had received with gladness the message of John the Baptist, and had thus been led to study anew the prophecies concerning the Messiah. When the early Christian church was founded, it was composed of these faithful Jews who recognized Jesus of Nazareth as the one for whose advent they had been longing. It is to this remnant that Paul refers when he writes, "If the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches." | |
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"Det folk, som ikke var mit folk, vil jeg kalde "mit folk," og hende, som ikke var den elskede, vil jeg kalde "den elskede"; og det skal ske, at på det sted, hvor der blev sagt til dem: "I er ikke mit folk," der skal de kaldes "den levende Guds børn"." Rom. 9,21-26. |