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For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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Verse 6. Peculiar. Hebrew sogula, laid up like something most precious and desirable. Menochius.—God seemed to have abandoned other nations to the corruption of their own heart. “This was, by a particular mystery, a prophetical nation.” Saint Augustine ep. cii. Exodus 19:5. Calmet.—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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