Chapter XXIX.—Let Us Also Draw Near to God in Purity of Heart.

Let us then draw near to Him with holiness of spirit, lifting up pure and undefiled hands unto Him, loving our gracious and merciful Father, who has made us partakers in the blessings of His elect.^41384138    Literally, “has made us to Himself a part of election.”  For thus it is written, “When the Most High divided the nations, when He scattered^41394139    Literally, “sowed abroad.” the sons of Adam, He fixed the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God.  His people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, and Israel the lot of His inheritance.^41404140    Deut. xxxii. 8, 9.  And in another place [the Scripture] saith, 238“Behold, the Lord taketh unto Himself a nation out of the midst of the nations, as a man takes the first-fruits of his threshing-floor; and from that nation shall come forth the Most Holy.”^41414141    Formed apparently from Num. xviii. 27 and 2 Chron. xxxi. 14.  Literally, the closing words are, “the holy of holies.”