This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... JEHOVAH THE REDEEMER GOD. i. Jehovah The Proper Name Of The God Of Israel. BY tracing a proper name to its origin, and disclosing the causes which gave it birth, interesting and important results may be attained. The inquirer may find that a name which he had regarded, perhaps, as an arbitrary combination of letters or sounds, is in reality full of significance, and when he views it in its proper relation to the circumstances which attended its development, it may open before him into a picture from antique life, or it may be found to contain a memento of some forgotten feud or ancient conquest; or it may be changed into a memorial of the religion of a distant age--of its simple piety and unquestioning faith. Results such as these may be expected, if it is remembered that proper names are often more durable than other words. The forms of a language, in general, like a nation's current coin, may be changed, worn, and deteriorated by the use of successive generations, while proper names of deities, natural objects, and even men, exhibit, with scarcely diminished sharpness, the impress of a remote antiquity. B It is not, perhaps, in an Oriental language, such as the Hebrew, that the most strikingly illustrative examples of a distinguishing permanence in proper names would be sought; for the languages, like the manners of the Orientals, are, as compared with those of western nations, less subject to change with the flow of time. Yet it is not difficult to find, in Hebrew, examples of the preservation of archaic forms only in these words; and, as one of these, may be adduced our present subject, the proper name of the God of Israel, Jehovah; since the verb from which it is derived had become, apparently, obsolete, even at the period when...

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