...people of God ; these men that were not beloved for their works, were yet beloved by the grace of God. X * But their minds are averse. But are they the people on whom God doth magnify the riches of his grace...

...the right to do so. And this he has promised to do, in verses 25, 26 ; " 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 in the place where it was said unto them ye are not my people, there shall...

...here speaking of the election of individuals, and not of nations. V. 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. In the preceding verse, the Apostle had spoken of those who were called...

...on the headstone that gives Beloved its title and initiates its plot also alludes to its epigraph: I will call them my people, Which were not my people; And her beloved; Which was not beloved. This quotation from Romans 9:25, which repeats with little difference a passage from the Old Testament...

...the horrifying effects of the past — is set in a redemptive context. The epigraph to the novel ("1 will call them my people which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved") is from Paul's letter to the Church at Rome (9:25), which in turn quotes the same words from the prophet...

...is to say, us which he called, not of the Jews only, but also of the gentiles. As he saith in Osee: I will call them my people which were not my people: and her beloved which 1 Pa 2 d. was not beloved. And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said unto them, ye are...

...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...

...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...

...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...