Peter's quoting Exodus 19:6. Do you dispute that Israel had a class of priests who were set apart from the rest of the people?
Yes but the temple is gone and Yah'shua is our High Priest ( see Hebrews 3 - 13)
b'SHEM Yah'shua
182 posted on 04/15/2008 1:32:45 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012
(you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)