And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
6. And ye shall be unto me. He points out more clearly, and more at length, how the Israelites will be precious unto God; viz., because they will be for “a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.” By these words, he implies that they will be endowed with sacerdotal as well as royal honors; as much as to say, that they would not only...
God set up His pavilion on a barren mountaintop in the wilderness, not in any city or palace men had built, and thus put contempt upon all our magnificence. The Israelites reckoned on a three days' journey to sacrifice, yet took nearly two months; we are always miscounting the time such things require.
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Commenting on Exodus 19:1-8
And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests,.... Instead of being in a state of servitude and bondage, as they had been in Egypt, they should be erected into a kingdom, become a body politic, a free state, a commonwealth governed by its own laws, and those laws of God's making; yea, they should be a kingdom to him, and he be more...