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1 | Are old words proper for Scripture? | Bible general Archive 4 | corrective | 210639 | ||
"He didn't divulge His name until He spoke with Moses...". I realize that there seems to be a verse that says this, in most translations anyway, but it is not correct, if we are to believe the Bible elsewhere. Genesis 4:26 says that at time -- long before the Flood and Moses -- that people began to call on the Name of YHWH. Genesis 12:8 says that Abram (later, Abraham) called on the Name of YHWH. Genesis 26:25 says that Isaac called on the Name of YHWH. Genesis 28:16 says that Jacob said, "Surely YHWH is/was in this place; and I did not know." There are other passages as well. So, when Exodus 6:3 seems to say that none of them knew YHWH by His Name, it would seem to be obviously mistranslated. (Many translators may not have really thought about issues surrounding His Name when they rendered it.) A simple change would be that instead of adding a period to the end of it, add a question mark, and we get "but by my name YHWH was I not known to them?" There may or may not be some other fix to the mistranslation that is better. Otherwise, when it says that these called out with and spoke with the Name, we'd have to completely retranslate those passages, or reinterpret them, to say that they did not really call out using His Name, which makes little sense. Or admit to a blatant contradiction, which seems very, very unlikely to be the case. YHWH elohim is, here in Exodus 6, not trying to establish that they did not know Him by this Name, but to clearly establish His Name to Moses -- He had just said "I am YHWH" just before this -- thus connecting His Name with (the) elohim of antiquity! For when a person wants to ask about the Truth of elohim and of life, one may want to "Stand in the ways/crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is -- and walk in it -- and you will find rest for your souls" (Jeremiah 6:16); for Scripture says that YHWH and His way have been from the beginning; and the term YHWH elohim is first mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 2:4. (Cp. Is. 37:26.) All these -- Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob -- knew His Name, which Name has been known and called upon since at least Seth, the son of Eve and Adam (Gen. 4:26). And Scripture NOW indicates that: "Whoever will call with/on the Name of YHWH will be delivered/saved/preserved" (in both the NT and the Tanakh). Amen? Hallelu-Yah, Praise Yah! --corrective. ©2008. |
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2 | Are old words proper for Scripture? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 210648 | ||
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