chosen people

Noun

Meaning

any people believing themselves to be chosen by God

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The Jews were God's chosen people. John Chrysostom

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. Herman Melville

As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah, so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital . Karl Marx

There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lightning, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses. Steve Allen

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like. Bruce Kent

We dare not see ourselves as a chosen people. We are called people - called to a particular task, just as every nation is a called people. Pieter Willem Botha

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