Exodus 19:5-6 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure to me above all people… Exotic flowers or foreign plants, if seeded on the mountain side, or inserted in the meadow amongst the promiscuous herbage growing there, soon become choked and disappear. Those who wish to preserve the flaming glories of the Cape, or the rich fruits of the tropic, must provide a garden enclosed — must keep out the weeds and rough weather. And so God, anxious to preserve "His Holy Law," fenced in the Hebrew nationality. He secluded them, and wailed them in, and made them, as it were, His own conservatory — a conservatory where Divine truth should survive uninjured until Messiah should come. Parallel Verses KJV: Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: |
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