And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Ver. 7. And I will be to you a God.] This is the top of any man's happiness, to have God for his God. What can such a man want? Psa 23:1 As he in Plutarch said of the Egyptians, that though they had no music nor vines among them, yet they had gods. a
a Plut., Sυμπος .