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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LOED OK JEHOVAH. The second name of God revealed in Holy Scripture, the name Jehovah, which we translate Lord, shews us qualities in God, which, though they are contained, can hardly be said to be expressed, in the first name, Elohim. ' For the name Elohim, as we have seen, in its very import and by its plural form, spoke of One whose very Being involved a 1 I may perhaps say here, for those who do not read Hebrew, that, in our Authorised Version, wherever we find the name God or Lohd printed in capitals, the original is Jehovah, (as in Gen. ii. 4,5,7, 8, andc.; vi. 5, 6; xv. 2; xviii. 1, 13,19,22,26; Ezek. ii. 4; iii. 11, 27; Obad. i. 1.) Wherever we find God, (as in Gen. i. throughout, and in countless other passages, ) it is Elohim. Where we find Lord, (as in Gen. xv. 2; xviii. 3, 27, 30, 31, 32; and constantly in the prophecies of Ezekiel, ) it is Adonai. Thus LoBD God (in Gen. ii. 4, 5, 7, 8, and elsewhere, ) is Jehovah Elohim; while Lord God (in Gen. xv. 2, and Ezek. ii. 4, and elsewhere, ) is Adonai Jehovah. I may add that wherever the name Jehovah stands alone, (as in Gen. iv. 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, andc.) or is joined with Elohim, (as in Gen. ii. 4, 5, 6, andc., ) it is always written in Hebrew with the vowel points of Adonai: where Adonai is joined to Jehovah, (as in Gen. xv. 2; Ezek. ii. 4, andc.) Jehovah is written with the vowel points of Elohim. For the Jews scrupulously avoided pronouncing the name Jehovah, always reading Adonai for Jehovah, except where Adonai is joined to Jehovah, (as in Gen. xv. 2, and like passages, ) in which case they read Adonai Elohim. covenant-relationship, which never could be broken. Jehovah on the other hand, as we shall see, shews One, who, being...
