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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
post or _ antediluvian world . And the Rabbis , who certainly entertained this opinion , might have been further influenced to come to this conclusion by the angel's reply to Manoah , when he demanded his name— " Why askest thou after my name , seeing it is SECRET ? " * Butalthough they who were favoured with the possession
, p f this stone may be reasonably supposed not to have been ignorant of the word engraven thereon , yet it may be necessary to dispose of this objection before we proceed with our dissertation .
It is well known that many words in the ancient Hebrew language will bear a different interpretation , which has caused those various readings that certain obscure passages of scripture have undergone , and this , probably , because the original language was written without points or vowels . Thus , a single mark or pause , particularly a note of interrogation , absent
being , would completely change the sense of a passage , which might otherwise be plain and clear . Hence , in the case before us , I am inclined to think , for reasons which I shall presently explain , that the above text ought to be read interrogatively , thus—By my name of Jehovah was I not known unto thee ?—impling that this name was known
y . _ Now that the name of Jehovah was familiar to the antediluvian _ patriarchs we have the good fortune to possess substantial presumptive evidence ; for , at the very commencement of the scripture historv the fact annears to he
clearly avouched . The first recorded acts of the human race after the fall , are the unhappy differences between Cain and Abel ; and the account contains plain intimations that the name of God was known to both . We are here told that Cain brought an offering to Jehovahj , the triune Elohim;—that Jehovah had respect unto the offering of Abel % that
; Jehovah said to Cain ; § and Cain said unto Jehovah . \\ And Jehovah set a mark on Cain ; f and Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah . ** After this , it would be against evidence to believe that Cain was unacquainted with this remarkable name of God . As well miht we say that Adamin Paradise ignorant
g , , was of it , and also the righteous Abel . Such a belief would be absolutely unreasonable . In the infancy of the world , the Deity revealed himself personally to his creatures , and continued his gracious mani-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
post or _ antediluvian world . And the Rabbis , who certainly entertained this opinion , might have been further influenced to come to this conclusion by the angel's reply to Manoah , when he demanded his name— " Why askest thou after my name , seeing it is SECRET ? " * Butalthough they who were favoured with the possession
, p f this stone may be reasonably supposed not to have been ignorant of the word engraven thereon , yet it may be necessary to dispose of this objection before we proceed with our dissertation .
It is well known that many words in the ancient Hebrew language will bear a different interpretation , which has caused those various readings that certain obscure passages of scripture have undergone , and this , probably , because the original language was written without points or vowels . Thus , a single mark or pause , particularly a note of interrogation , absent
being , would completely change the sense of a passage , which might otherwise be plain and clear . Hence , in the case before us , I am inclined to think , for reasons which I shall presently explain , that the above text ought to be read interrogatively , thus—By my name of Jehovah was I not known unto thee ?—impling that this name was known
y . _ Now that the name of Jehovah was familiar to the antediluvian _ patriarchs we have the good fortune to possess substantial presumptive evidence ; for , at the very commencement of the scripture historv the fact annears to he
clearly avouched . The first recorded acts of the human race after the fall , are the unhappy differences between Cain and Abel ; and the account contains plain intimations that the name of God was known to both . We are here told that Cain brought an offering to Jehovahj , the triune Elohim;—that Jehovah had respect unto the offering of Abel % that
; Jehovah said to Cain ; § and Cain said unto Jehovah . \\ And Jehovah set a mark on Cain ; f and Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah . ** After this , it would be against evidence to believe that Cain was unacquainted with this remarkable name of God . As well miht we say that Adamin Paradise ignorant
g , , was of it , and also the righteous Abel . Such a belief would be absolutely unreasonable . In the infancy of the world , the Deity revealed himself personally to his creatures , and continued his gracious mani-