Article September 16, 1972 Issue

Words of Current Interest

Related to the Lesson-Sermon for September 24, 1972, in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE QUARTERLY Subject: Reality

Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people (I Pet. 2:9)

For these names of honor, see Ex. 19:5, 6; Deut. 7: 6; Isa. 43:20. The Interpreter's Bible comments on this verse, "Privilege implies responsibility: the new people of God must take up the task left unfulfilled by the old, viz., to declare the excellences (or wonderful deeds) of the God who had called them out of heathen darkness into the marvelous light of salvation" (cf. Matt. 5:14-16).

Day of visitation (I Pet. 2:12)

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