Deut 7:6 Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth.
Deut 14:2 Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth
Deut 26:18 And the Lord hath chosen thee this day, to be his peculiar people, as he hath spoken to thee, and to keep all his commandments:
Ver. 6. Peculiar. Heb. sogula, laid up like something most precious and desirable. M. --- God seemed to have abandoned other nations to the corruption of their own heart. "This was, by a particular mystery, a prophetical nation." S. Aug. ep. cii. Ex. xix. 5. C. --- Therefore must they destroy every idol in their land, to set a pattern to all other less favoured nations how they ought also to treat them.
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