JEWS.
The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as He hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in His ways.
And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes, * * * thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb and a bye-word, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.—Deuteronomy, xxviii. 9, 10, 15, 37.
Salvation is of the Jews.—John, iv. 22.
He is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men but of God.—Romans, ii. 28, 29.
What advantage then hath the Jew, or what profit is there in circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.—Romans, iii. 1, 2.
They, and they only, amongst all mankind,
Received the transcript of the Eternal Mind;
Were trusted with His own engraven laws,
And constituted guardians of His cause;
Theirs were the prophets, theirs the priestly call,
And theirs, by birth, the Saviour of us all.
Cowper.
Thrice happy nation! Favourite of Heaven!
Selected from the kingdoms of the earth
To be His chosen race, ordained to spread
His glory through remotest realms, and teach
The Gentile world Jehovah’s awful name.
William Hodson.
That people once
So famed, whom God Himself vouchsafed to call
His chosen race, and with a guardian hand
Deigned to protect, from Palestine exiled,
Are doomed to wander; although scattered thus
Through all the globe, there is no clime which they
Can call their own, no country where their laws
Hold sovereign rule. Irrefragable proof,
That every oracle of Holy Writ
Was given by Heaven itself!
Samuel Hayes.