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15. Thence, in the books of Samuel and Kings, in the Chronicles, in the Psalms, in Isaiah, J eremiah, and most of the minor prophets, before the Babylonish captivity and after it, this expression concern- ing the Lord God of Sabaoth is of very frequent occurrence. The lxx. translators rendered it in various ways ; but they chiefly employ the epithet KuvroKpdrup , and say, K vpiog tfavroTtpdrMp, o K vpiog 6 0? oc 6 vocvroxpdrup. This word is nowhere found in the other books of the New Testament, except at 2 Cor. vi. 18, and that in an express quotation of a passage in Isaiah. In the Apocalypse alone it is of frequent occurrence.
§ 6. The word Sabaoth denotes armies or great forces, and parti- cularly indeed those of the Israelites ; but generally all in heaven and in earth, because Jehovah is the God of all : and thence 6 ruv- roxpdrup expresses the Almighty [All-swaying]. To Him alone all warfare is subservient ; and the whole agency of that warfare is stirred up and comes to its height in the Apocalypse.
§ 7. Since these things are so, the Third part, 6 &v xa/ 6 b xa /' 6 IpyflLivoq, cannot but answer to the Hebrew niiT : for the epithet, 6 * 7Tocvro%pdrup , is never used, unless either &sbg or rtt!T immediately precede. The former precedes, with an interval between, in the present : therefore mrp is immediately preceding. Moreover either the three clauses taken together, 6 wv, xa/ 6 b, xa/ o ipyo^og, answer to the name nirp, or the third, 6 ep%6fievog, undoubtedly does so.
§ 8. He who niiT, shall be , is called 6 ep^o^svog ; and yet He is not called o saopmg, but with great skill, 6 Ipyo^og, lest there should ap- pear to be any detraction from His present being , and that His com- ing may be more clearly expressed. About to be, in Hebrew K3H, coming ; comp. John xvi. 13 ; and so other languages.
§ 9. There is great dispute as to the manner in which the name miT is to be read, and how widely its signification extends. Some, because the points of the name D\"6k frequently, and of the name *0*!^ very frequently, are added to it, introduce other vowels, and, for instance, read it as nirp Iihvaeh.
§ 10. But even if the name nin> always had vowels belonging to the other names of God, and never its own, attributed to it in our copies, yet it might be read Jehovah , equally with Iihvaeh. But many things prove that Jehovah even must be the reading.
§ 11. The Hebrews were careful never to pronounce the name nirr, except with the greatest purity ; wherefore, where the prefixes introduced a change of vowels, they very frequently substituted the name having vowels approaching very closely to nin\ But
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