For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
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 xix. 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.
