Or not, actually. But I was amazed to read just this morning that there was a sort of anticipation – and refutation – of the phenomenon years before. Stone Chumash cites Pesachim 87a as the source of this commentary on the Book of the Hosea (Haftarah Bamidbar):

God told Hosea that Israel had sinned, to which the prophet replied, “All the world is Yours. [If they are unworthy] exchange them for another nation.”

God responded by commanding him to marry a harlot and have children with her, even though he knew she was unfaithful. Chapter 1 of Hosea relates that he had three children from this marriage and, at God’s command, named them as follows:

Stone runs through the story of the names of the children, the second and third being Lo-ruhamah and Lo-ammi. These verses are some of the key Scriptures used to say that God has replaced Israel with the Church. But Stone goes on the relate:

…for the Jews had forfeited their claim to chosenness. Then, after the three children were born, God ordered Hosea to send his family away. Hosea pleaded that he could not part with the children!

God then said: “Your wife is a harlot whose children may not even be yours but the product of adultery, yet you say that you cannot abandon them. Israel is the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – how dare you say I should exchange it for another nation!”

I really don’t understand any longer how the church theologians who have wanted to go with the first premise have so completely missed the second and more important one, unless it’s through some sort of willfulness.