1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Deuteronomy 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. Deuteronomy 14:2.; Deuteronomy 26:18. | 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." (St. 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. |