“For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:”
Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory; theirs the covenants; theirs the receiving of the law; theirs the temple worship and theirs the promises. — Paul catalogs Israel's inalienable privileges (τὰ Ἰσραηλῖται, ta Israelitai): υἱοθεσία (hyiothesia, "adoption to sonship") is theirs; δόξα (doxa, "glory"), διαθῆκαι (diathēkai, "covenants"), νομοθεσία (nomothesia, "law-giving"), λατρεία (latreia, "service/worship"), ἐπαγγελίαι (epaggeliai, "promises"). These are permanent allocations, irrevocable marks of covenant election.
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