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1 | Why is it too sacred to pronounce today? | Deut 6:5 | DocTrinsograce | 227813 | ||
Arguably, John 8:56-58 might be an instance where Christ used the tetragrammaton -- and certainly His hearers took it that way. "Some think that this applies simply to the eternal Divinity of Christ, and compare it with that passage in the writings of Moses, I am what I am, (Exodus 3:14). But I extend it much farther, because the power and grace of Christ, so far as he is the Redeemer of the world, was common to all ages. It agrees therefore with that saying of the apostle, Christ yesterday, and to-day, and for ever, (Hebrews 13:8). For the context appears to demand this interpretation. He had formerly said that Abraham longed for his day with vehement desire; and as this seemed incredible to the Jews, he adds, that he himself also existed at that time. The reason assigned will not appear sufficiently strong, if we do not understand that he was even then acknowledged to be the Mediator, by whom God was to be appeased. And yet the efficacy which belonged, in all ages, to the grace of the Mediator depended on his eternal Divinity; so that this saying of Christ contains a remarkable testimony of his Divine essence." --John Calvin |
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2 | Why is it too sacred to pronounce today? | Deut 6:5 | biblicalman | 227818 | ||
I must confess I fail to see how Jesus could have used the tetragrammaton in John 8.56-58 or that he used it anywhere else. He could not have said 'before Abraham was YHWH'. If He was speaking in Hebrew (which is unlikely) He used the first person as in Exodus 3.14 (EHYEH). Certainly it is based on the tetragrammaton but it was in no way the actual Name of God. It was an interpretation of that Name. Thus Jesus never taught the way to pronounce YHWH. His hearers took it as blasphemy because they gathered the inference of what He was saying, not because He used the Name of YHWH. That does not of course in any way invalidate Calvin's comments. | ||||||