LORD', whereas the primitive text contains the astounding statement `JEHOVAH stood

yet before Abraham"! But what continents of condescending truth they sacrifice in their

mistaken zeal. The attitude both of Israel and the Christian to the name Jehovah is so to

magnify the "Eternal" (the translation adopted by the French), the Ineffable and the

Unspeakable (the attitude of Israel), as to make any link with humanity sound like

sacrilege, yet if Jesus Christ be at the same time the "One LORD" of the O.T., and if He

be at the same time the Son of Man and the Seed of the woman, we adopt the

emendations of the Sopherim to our hurt.

We must remember that He Who was, and is, and is to come, and Jesus Christ the

same yesterday, and today, and for ever, is one and the same Person. In the Form of

Sound Words we quoted Dr. Duncan H. Weir on the usage of the name Jehovah where

he says "He (i.e. the Hebrew) says again and again my GOD, but never my JEHOVAH,

for when he says my God he means Jehovah". This comment while it is true of the

Hebrews attitude, is not true as a statement of fact, for the Scriptures do, as we have seen,

use the expression "My LORD" from Abraham, throughout the N.T. until we reach the

climax confession of Thomas "My Lord and my God" in a context where the "Lord"

Who stood before him, could speak of the nail prints in His hands and the spear wound in

His side, a Jehovah that eyes could see, and hands handle, a very different Person from

that of tradition, a veiled inscrutable Being, Whose name was even almost sacrilege to

utter. The conflict at the Exodus of Israel was not only between man and man, with a

slave-owning king, and the king of Israel. It was between a `god' and GOD, for the

Pharaoh who sat on the throne of Egypt and said `I know not the LORD' was himself

styled the Son of Isis, Horus sun-god of Egypt, and it was `against all the gods of Egypt'

that the Lord said He would execute judgment (Exod. 12: 12). The plagues that fell on

that devoted land may seem strange to us, living at this distance in place and time, but

they touched Egypt's gods at every turn. The River Nile was an object of worship `under

various names and symbols as Hapi i.e. Apis the sacred bull, and living representative of

Osiris' (Canon Cooke). A hymn addressed to the Nile as a god, contains the lines:

In the Tel-el Armarna tablets, a governor writes to the Pharaoh of the time saying `At

the feet of my lord, my sun-god, I prostrate myself seven times and seven times'. The

usurpation of the titles and prerogatives of the Lord, concentrates particularly upon the

primeval promise of Gen. 3: 15 for we shall see in a moment, that a goddess with her

son challenges the claims of Jehovah Himself. It is possible that the reader of Gen. 3: 15

and its promise to the woman of a Seed that should bruise the serpent's head, would not

necessarily think immediately of "Jehovah", but it is evident from Gen. 4: 1 that Eve

did. At the birth of Cain, Even said:

It is gratuitous to assume that Eve was utterly mistaken or that she had no warrant for

her assumptions, we know nothing of what she believed or had revealed to her apart from

what is recorded. If Eve spoke entirely without revelation or warrant, how does it come