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that is , the wonderful counsellor s the mighty God , &c . " shall call hi £ name the Prince of Pe ^ ce . " But supposing the meaning to b § that the name of the child should be called , " the mighty God , the everlasting Father / ' still it would be absurd to attempt to prove , from the meaning ot names given to persons in the Hebrew scriptures , that because a character of the divine Being forms a part of the appellation 5 that therefore the persons
bearing those names ^ must be possessed of divinity , and properly God . For instance , the father of Elihu , is called BaracheZ , that is the blessed God . A prophet is named Elijah , God the Lord * One of the sons of Ephraim , I Chron . vii . 20-is named Eladah , mj /^ tf God eternal , or the eternal God , and an altar is called EJ-EloAe Israel , God the God of Israel . Gen . xxxiii , 20 . Will it then follow that because men and things are called by such names ^ tt ^ at they are therefore , what those n&mes import ?
The Septuagint renders the words , His name shall be called the angel pf the great counsel : * ' fra \ n whence it is evident , that they consider the words '" rtlU b& , el geber , rendered rnighr iy God , as meaning nothing rpore than angel , or messenger , and that the child the subject of the prophecy , was to be the tries *? senger of the great , or as Aye have it , wonderful counsel , and such Jesus Christ certainly was , for it was from him that Paul received what he calls , " The whole counsel of God * . " These two words el geber , transposed , torn } the name of an angel or
messenger , 7 fct'H 3 J , OabrieJ , wham the prophet expressly calls a man , Dan , viii . 16 .. ix . 2 i . "btt" says Parkhurst , * ' is one of the most difficult roots in the Hebrew language , and various methods have been taken by learned men , to account for its several applications . After the most attentive consideration , I think the notion of interposition , intervention , or the like , bids the fairest for the ideal meaning of it , and best reconciles its different uses / ' He then gives nineteen different applications of it , one of which is that , of a narpe or title of the true God .
The word '" iru means strength , and is frequently rendered man , see Job iii . 3 . iv . 17 . xiv . 10 , 14 . and Prov . xxx . 19 . and in the plural , it is rendered angels , Psal . Ixxviii . 25 . From whence it will follow , that it is by no means necessary that the appellation el geber , should be rendered mighty God . It may , perhaps , be properly rendered the interposing man , and refer to the mediation of Jesus Christ . It would ., we may observe , be natural to expect in a prophecy of a child born , and a son given , that , in the appellations by which he is described in the
prophe-* Acts . xx . 27 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 179, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/11/
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