But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
      IV. The apostle adds a further description, still preserving the metaphor of a stone, 1 Peter 2:8; 1 Peter 2:8. The words are taken from Isaiah 8:13; Isaiah 8:14, Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself--and he shall be for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence, whence it is plain that Jesus Christ is the Lord of hosts, and consequently the most high God. Observe,