descriptors: they are saints (holy people), and they are faithful.30 The word “saints,” or “holy people,” is commonly connected to the idea of separation, but C. F. D. Moule gets it right when he says the term is “perhaps best rendered ‘dedicated’, ‘God’s own’, because it represents the O.T. conception of ‘the dedicated people’ whose members are ‘the dedicated ones.’ ”31 To define holiness as “separation from” is only half the story this term tells, and in fact it tells only the second and less important
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