Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

Forty years suffered He their manners in the wilderness.

Hath God cast away His people? God forbid.

He is not a Jew, which is one outwardly.

I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham.

I am a Pharisee, the son os a Pharisee.

The lost sheep of the house of Israel.

They have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles.

Unto them were committed the oracles of God.