Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
Ver. 22. Are they Israelites] God's select, peculiar. "Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people!" Deuteronomy 33:29. The Jews say that those seventy souls that went with Jacob into Egypt were as much as all the seventy nations of the world. Tabor and Hermen, the east and west of Judea, are put for the east and west of the world, Psalms 89:12 .