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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Deuteronomy 9:29.
Deuteronomy 9:29
Excerpted from: Government (Part Seven)It is interesting there because exactly the same word used in reference to Israel being God's inheritance, in the Septuagint that word "inheritance" is [the Greek word] kleros. That is the same word that is used here in I Peter 5:3 in regard to "being lords over those entrusted to you." The ministry is to look at the congregation that he pastors as having been given, or allotted, or assigned to him as his "inheritance"—in the same way that Israel was God's inheritance. The idea behind this is that, as God treated Israel (and He gave His life for it), the minister is to treat his congregation. That is, having the same kind of regard. So the congregation is "the allotment" of the elder, and he had better take care of it.
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