12But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
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And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-21)Moses here tells the people of Israel, I. How God had dignified them, as a peculiar people, with three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in heavenly things with which God has in Christ blessed us. 1. Here is election: The Lord hath chosen thee , Deut. 14:2. Not for their own merit, nor for any good works foreseen, but because he would magn…
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