...servitude. Nor had they any just ground of complaint against him, whilst in the wilderness, for God says : " Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles •wings," Exod. xix. 4. The blessings Moses proposed were far more agreeable to carnal minds (such as the Jews...

...reiterated assurances of favour and protection, conveyed in this sublime, but endearing language : " Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagle's wings, and brought you unto myself ; now therefore if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep...

...of the rest of mankind ; and regarded them as the objects of his care and benevolence. Exod. xix. 5, Now, therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and...shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: pun Sa ^ '3, ALTHOUGH all the earth is mine. So it should be rendered. Deut. x. 14, 15, Behold the...

...Jacob, and tell the children of Israel, ye have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bare you OR eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.-— Now...will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then shall ye be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people.' In the following chapter God declares the...

...Children of Israel for 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 nnto me, above all people.' — (Exod. xix. ) He that favoured not the Israelites, but took cruel vengeance...

...expedient to exhibit himself to them as a local tutelary deity, so far at least as to say (a), — " If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure to me above all people ;" but, to prevent them from confounding his nature with that of the tutelary...

...XX. Ttie ten commandments. tr TO'ce '"deed, and keep ray covenant, 9 1 t *• if* -*»• then 're -*15. «i. n-,.,4- M ;—.*.«. I" "5.5itlLSi.'ij 6 And ye shall be unto me a ' kingdom i'«Sr "^ P"ests»...

...mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou '<* say to the house of Jacob, and tell the " children of Israel; Ye have seen what I " did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare " you on eagle's wings, and brought you " unto myself. Now, therefore, if ye will " obey my voice indeed, and...

...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...

...of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how...ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, thtn shall ye be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people : for all the Earth is mine. And ye shall...