Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 19:5

5 Now therefore if ye will obey my voice indeed and keep my Covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine .

Heb. obeying ye will obey, i. e. if ye will obey me sincerely, diligently, and constantly.

Highly prized and loved and carefully kept by me, as mens treasures generally are.

For all people upon earth are mine by creation and dominion, and I can dispose of them all as I please, and either chuse or refuse any of them as I think [illegible: 1+ letters]t, and therefore though I might refuse you, as well as any others, yet it is my pleasure to single you out of all the world, upon whom to confer my chiefest and peculiar blessings. Or, though all the earth be [illegible: 1 word], by general right, yet you onely are mine by special title [illegible: 1 word] priviledge.

Marginal references: Deut. 5. 2.; Deut. 4. 20. 7. 6. an[illegible: 1+ letters] 14. 2. & 26. [illegible: 1 word] & 3[illegible: 1+ letters]. 8, 9. Psa[illegible: 1+ letters]. 135. 4. Can[illegible: 1+ letters] ▪ [illegible: 1+ letters] ▪ 12. Isa. 43. 1. Jer. 10. 16. Mal. 3. 17. T[illegible: 1+ letters]. 2. 14.; Deut. 10. 1[illegible: 1+ letters] Psal. 24. 1.