quality of those to whom they were given, or whom they were designed to represent, then it follows that He, whose advent was foretold in the prophecy just cited, and who was to be called God, Eternal Father, &c., must possess the quality and attributes of the Divine Being. And if He possess the quality and attributes of the Divine, then must He be Himself the Divine: He must be God—the Eternal Father.
It will perhaps be said by some in reply to this, that the fact of its being declared in Isaiah that Jesus Christ shall be called God, Eternal Father, Immanual &c. is not evidence of His supreme divinity; because other persons are mentioned in Scripture, whom no one has ever regarded as divine, yet whose names signify nearly the same thing. Thus Joshua means in the Hebrew language the Lord , the Savior; Shephatiah means the Lord that Judges; Ithiel means God with me; Lemuel means God with them; Elisha means God that saves; and Elijah, God the Lord or the strong Lord.[1]
But it is to be borne in mind that the Israelitish
- ↑ For the meaning of the names here given, the reader is referred to a Table of proper names in the latter part of Cruden’s Concordance, where their signification in the original languages is added. The meaning there given to them is not always precisely the same as that given by some of the later Hebrew Lexicographers, but the difference is not material.
