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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"He hath not cast off His people, whom He foreknew." As though he said, I have with me three, five, or ten thousand. What then? has the people come to be three, five, or ten thousand? that seed that compared with the stars of heaven for multitude, or the sand of the sea? …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Second, when he says: God has not cast away, he shows that his people has not been rejected by God in regard to many chosen ones. First, he states his proposition; second, he recalls a similar situation, saying do you not know; third, he adapts it, at even so then, at this present time. First, therefore, he says: not only have I not been rejected, but God has not cast away his people which he foreknew, i.e., the predestined ones. For whom he foreknew, he also predestined (Rom 8:29). For the Lord will not reject his people (Ps 94:14). …
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