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The debate in many Reformed circles over worship music is only a small part of the larger question of Reformed liturgics. And dancing. All sides admit that the New Testament offers relatively little instruction on liturgy, and so the debate over the regulative principle continues with apparently little hope for resolution. In this study, Peter Leithart’s key insight reveals a prominent scriptural...

of Gentiles in the Old Testament period. We take the general point first: throughout the Old Testament, it was common for people without blood ties to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to be incorporated into Israel. When Yahweh instituted the covenant of circumcision, Abraham had only one descendant but many servants (see Gen. 14:14). All of these servants and their sons were circumcised (Gen. 17:23), and thus became part of “Abraham’s seed.” From the beginning, then, the community of the circumcised was
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