...and how I bare you on eagles* wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therer REDEMPTION. 17S fore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant,...unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation." — " The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all the people that...

...towards them, and to propose the receiving of them into special favour. He was to say from the Lord, " If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant,...earth is mine : and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation." Moses went and " called for the elders of the people, and laid before...

...did it please Him to add to this their original obligation the solemn sanction of mutual promise, " Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how...a peculiar treasure unto Me, above all people, for the whole earth is Mine. And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their...

...will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people." — Levit, xxvi. 3, 9, 12. " Now, therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and...unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.'' — Exod. xix. 5, 6. This treaty is confirmed by the sacrifice of burnt-offerings. " And Moses took...

...will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people." — Levit. xxvi. 3, 9, 12. " Now, therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and...unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.'" — Exod. xix. 5, 6. This treaty is confirmed by the sacrifice of burnt-offerings. " And Moses took...

...resting on its summit. There was now the peculiar seat of the divine presence. Moses approached it ; " and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain,...the earth is mine. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom -of priests, and a holy nation." — God would be their immediate Sovereign, and distinguish them from...

...applying these titles, the apostle refers to a promise, which God made through Moses to the Jews : " If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant,...unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation." " A royal priesthood" corresponds accurately to " a kingdom of priests," whilst in both cases " an...

...shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel ; Ye have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings,...be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people," Exod. xix, 3, &c. In the following chapter, God declares the terms of the covenant they were to keep,...

...such a calling as God's, of his people by Moses, " Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice in deed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar...unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation." (Exod. xix. 5, 6.) And all who did so became his people accordingly. For in the moral as well as in...

...occurring in the words which Moses received on the mount of God to deliver to the children of Israel : " Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and...people ; for all the earth is mine ; and ye shall he unto me a kingdom of priests and an holy nation;" — and as he afterwards rehearsed it before all...