But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: --1 Peter 2:6

"Few are they who have taken the spoils of the Egyptians, and made of them the furniture of the Tabernacle." --Clement of Alexandria (d. ca. A.D. 215).