Romans 3:1-2

Romans 3:1-2. What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way; chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

If it be so that, after all, no outward rite or birth privileges can bestow grace, what advantage did the Jews possess? "Why!" says Paul, "they had this very great privilege, ‘that unto them were committed the oracles of God.’" It is no small blessing to have a revelation from Jehovah, and to have the means of knowing what that revelation really is.