But because the Lord loved you. — And this, again, was not due to themselves, as he points out fully in Deuteronomy 9:4, &c.
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Deuteronomy 7:8
8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.