Deuteronomy 7:6

Deuteronomy 7:6 -

An holy people ; a people consecrated to God, to be holy as he is holy (cf. Le 11:43-45; Deuteronomy 19:2 ; Deuteronomy 20:1-20 :26; Deuteronomy 21:6 ; Deuteronomy 23:14 ). A special people unto himself ; literally, to be to him for a people of property ( סְגֻלָּה ), a people his own, his peculiar property (cf. Exodus 19:5 ; Deuteronomy 14:2 ; Deuteronomy 26:18 ; and, for the meaning of the word, 1 Chronicles 29:3 , "mine own proper good;" Ecclesiastes 2:8 , "peculiar treasure of kings"); LXX ; λαὸς περιούσιος , applied by St. Paul to Christians as the chosen and special property of Christ ( Titus 2:14 :). Above all people; rather, out of or from among all the peoples .

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

The Pulpit Commentary is a homiletic commentary on the Bible created during the nineteenth century under the direction of Rev. Joseph S. Exell and Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones. It consists of 23 volumes with 22,000 pages and 95,000 entries, and was written over a 30-year period with 100 contributors.... Show more

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