...sin, so will he do us. They were elected to be his people with this condition, " If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people." (Exod. xix.) He that favoured not the Israelites, but took cruel vengeance upon them, because they...

...them as the objects of his care and benevolence. Exod. xix. 5, Now, therefore, if у'с will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: p«n *?э -h »a, ALTHOUGH all the earth is mine. So it should be rendered. Deut. x. 14, 15, Behold...

...sin, so will he do us. They were elected to be his people, with this condition, ' If ye will obey my voice, indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me, above all people.'—(Exod. xix.) He that favoured not the Israelites, but took cruel vengeance upon them, because...

...scarcely be conveyed to an English reader. The same word is used, Exod. xix. 5, where it is translated " a peculiar treasure unto me above all people, for all the earth is mine." It is also used and translated in the same manner, Psal. cxxxv. 4, " The Lord hath chosen Jacob unto...

...priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou .shall speak unto the children of Israel. peculiar treasure unto me above all people : for all the earth is mine. stoned, or shot through : whether it be beast or, man, it shall not live : when the trumpet soundeth...

...priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which t lion shalt speak unto the children of Israel. peculiar treasure unto me above all people : for all the earth is mine. 14 ^f And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people, and they washed...

...14. The protection which the Deity promised to the Israelites, was conditional: " TjTye will obey ray voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people ; and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation ' 1" " I send an angel before thee...

...the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagle's wings, and brought you unto myself: if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. How soon do we find the people answering...

...people.—But the Lord uses very similar language respecting the Jewish nation ; If ye will obey my voice, fyc. then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me, above all people : and ye shall be a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. Compare 1 Pet. ii. 9, with Exod. six. 5,6....

...Sinai covenant, that the grand preliminary to that covenant was this : If ye mill obey my voice INBEED, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people. And what is mean^ by obeying his voice indeed, is sufficiently evident, by the subsequent addresses...