The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 7:6

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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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