all ill. Let us, then, see what we can learn regarding this marvelous Name.
ONE-ness
The Bible calls the Divine Being by a variety of Names, but when we have once got the general clue to the Sacred name, we shall find that each of them implies all the others, since each suggests some particular aspect of THAT which is the All-embracing UNIT, the everlasting ONE, which cannot be divided, and any one aspect of which must therefore convey to the instructed mind the suggestion of all the others. We will therefore seek first this general clue which will throw light on more particular appellations.
I think most people will agree that the specially personal Name by which the Divine Being is called in the Bible is Jehovah. If any Name, throughout the entire range of Scriptures, seems to invest the Divine Being with a distinct individuality, it is this one; and yet when we come to inquire into its meaning, we find that it is precisely the most emphatic statement of a universality which is the very antithesis of all that we understand by the word "individual".
The clue to this discovery is contained in the statement that God revealed Himself to Moses by the Name Jehovah (Ex. 6:3); for since the Bible contains no statement of any other revelation of the Divine Name to Moses, except that made at the burning bush, we are at once put upon the track of some connection between the Name Jehovah and the
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