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author of this book , and to other Jewish writers , a belief in the Divine N&-twe of tfae Measiab * or in any of the mysteries of modern ChrJ 3 ttan orthoctegjk We take as % fair specimen of the whole the evidence of the applw cation of the names Jehovah , Sheahinah , and Holy and blessed God 9 to the Messiah . 1 * Jehovah * " This essential name of God is applied to the Messiah , Jeiem . xxtit . 6 , ( Jehovah our righteousness , ) upon which place see what is said in the 2 nd book . " *
** Zohar Deuter , fol * 119 , coi * 473 , < In another place the learned in our traditions have taught thai the temple and the name of the Messiah may ' be called by the name of the Tetragrammaton ( i . e . Jehovah ) . ' "^* - ( Schoettgenius , Hore Hebr . et Talm ., Vol . II . p . 4 . ) It is strange that the application of a name equally to the temple and the name of the Messiah , should be though ! to prove any thing respecting the Messiah ' s nature . ** Zohar , in Exod . fbl . 21 , col . 33 . The words of Exod . xiii . 21 , * And
Jehovah will go before them , * are explained of the matron and the angel of the covenant , which I shall shew to be names of the Messiah . '"—( Schoettg loc . cit . ) We need not now inquire into the meaning of the mystical term matron in the Zohar . The object of the comment is the remark that it was not Jehovah himself , who could not be more in one place than another , but some symbol of his presence , or perhaps , in the estimation of the
metaphysical commentator , some emanation from him which really accompanied the people . The next argument is . a very strange one . " Midrasch Tehillim ad Ps . cvii . fol . 40 , 1 , in reference to the words of Isaiah xxxv . 10 , * And the redeemed of Jehovah shall return . * He does not say , the redeemed of Elias , nor the redeemed of the Messiah : but the redeemed of Jehovah . It is evident here that the redeemed of the Messiah and the redeemed of
Jehovah are considered as synonymous . "—( Schoettg . loc . cit . ) Doubtless the same persons would be intended by the redeemed , whether of Elias , the Messiah , or Jehovah , either of the former being able to redeem only by the aid and authority of Jehovah ; but the identity of the Messiah and Jehovah no more follows than that of Elias and Jehovah . Lastly , *« Midrasch TehiHim , fol . 57 , 1 , Rabbi Huna said , the Messiah is called by eight names , which are , Jinnon , Jehovah , our righteousness , &c . ; because the words I 3 p * llf miT ( Jehovah our righteousness ) are here counted as two names ,
* On turning to the passage referred Co we find several extracts from Jewish books . Echa rabbathi , fol . 59 , 2 : " What is the name of the king Messiah ? Rabbi Abbas , the 30 a oi Cabana , said , Jehovah is his uaine . " It is difficult to judge of this without seeing what precedes and follows it , but it probably refers to this very passage of Jeremiah , understood as explained in the following extracts : Rabbi Joseph Afto in Sepher Ikkarim : " The Scripture calls the name of the Messiah , Jehovah eur righteousness , because he is the mediator of God > through whom we obtain justification from God" Kimchi ; " The Israelites shall call their Messiah by the name
Jehovah our righteousness , because in his times the righteousness of Clod towards us will be arm aqd well established . " Midrasch Tehillim ad Psa . xxi . 1 : " God calls the king Messiah by his own name . But what is his name ? The answer is found Exod . xv . 3 , Jehovah is a man of war . But 1 t is said concerning the king Messiah , and this it JtU mam * " ( referring to Jer . xxiii . S ) . The meaning of this evidently is ,
that God himself could not properly be called a warrior ; but the expected Messiah , expected by the Jews a » a warlike deliverer , U said by Jeremiah to be called Jehovah our righteousness ; he may , therefore , be intended by Jehovah the warrior , it being understood , of course , in both places , not that the Messiah teas Jehovah , but that Jehovah acted by him . The argument for the application of the passage rests entirely on th * Messiah not being Jehovah , but honoured with his name as his representative .
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470 Dt . J » P . Smith * Scripture Ttttimony to the Messiah .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1831, page 470, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2599/page/38/
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