As had been true of fleshly Israel, members of spiritual Israel were the ones Jehovah called “the people whom I formed for myself so that they might declare my praise. ”
४३: २१) यहोवा हाच खरा देव आहे आणि इतर सर्व देव खोटे आहेत हे त्या सुरुवातीच्या ख्रिश्‍चनांनी अगदी निर्भयपणे घोषित केले.