Exodus 4:22

for they are Israelites, theirs is the Sonship, the Glory, the covenants, the divine legislation, the Worship, and the promises;

I will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord almighty.

to the assembly of the first-born registered in heaven, to the God of all as judge, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge did not add