# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S13
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Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1950 18

and keep His statutes and judgments, v. 22, referred not only to
ceremonial, but to moral holiness. Compare ‘also chaps. 21:8, 15, 23;
22:9, 16, 31-33. The Levites must have been quite diligent in
teaching this conception of God’s redeeming and saving holiness
to the people, for in that remarkable psalm of thanksgiving sung
by Hannah rejoicing over the birth of Samuel, she praises the
holiness of God which caused her to rejoice in His salvation
through the promised Messiah and King, 1 Sam. 2:1-10. The
Psalms are replete with references to the holiness of God as the
fountainhead from which flows forth our temporal and eternal
salvation. Ps. 22:4-6; 30:4-5; 33: 20-21; 48:1-3; 51:11; 71: 22-24;
78:41-42; 89:18-37; 97:8-12; 98:1-2; 99:1-9; 103: 1-12; 105: 1-3,
93-42; 106:47 (cp. Ezekiel 36); 111:9; 145: 21,

That greatest among all Prophets, the Evangelist of the Old
Testament, sings in exalted strains the praises of God’s redeeming,
justifying, sanctifying, preserving, and saving holiness. Is. 12:6;
99:18-24; 30:15-18; 41: 14-20; 45:11-13; 47:4; 48:17-19; 49:7;
52:10; 54:5; 57:14-21; 60:9, 14.

And Ezekiel, the Prophet of mysterious visions, links up with
his predecessors in the presentation of God’s holiness, Ezek. 36:
17-38. Cp. also Hos. 11:8-11.