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"Give ye glory to God, above Israel is the magnificence of Him" (ver. 34). Of whom saith the Apostle, "Upon the Israel of God." 1 For "not all that are out of Israel, are Israelites:" 2 for there is also an Israel after the flesh. Whence he saith, "See ye Israel after the flesh." 3 "For not they that are sons of the flesh, are sons of God, but sons of promise are counted for a seed." 4 Therefore at that time when without any intermixture of evil men His people shall be, like a heap purged by the fan, 5 like Israel in whom guile is not, 6 then most pre-eminent "above Israel" shall be "the magnificence" of "Him: and the virtue of Him in the clouds." For not alone He shall come to judgment, but with the elders of His people: 7 to whom He hath promised that they shall sit upon thrones to judge, 8 who even shall judge angels. 9 These be the clouds.
