Reference: Name, Names
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NAME, NAMES
1. The names of God.
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When Elizabeth had gone her full time, she was delivered of a son. her neighbours and her relations having heard how the Lord had heap'd his favours upon her, they congratulated with her: read more. and on the eighth day were present at the circumcision of the child. but upon their proposing to call him by his father's name, Zacharias: his mother objected to it,
and on the eighth day were present at the circumcision of the child. but upon their proposing to call him by his father's name, Zacharias: his mother objected to it,
and on the eighth day were present at the circumcision of the child. but upon their proposing to call him by his father's name, Zacharias: his mother objected to it, and said, no, he shall be called John.
and said, no, he shall be called John. they answered her, there is not any of your family of that name.
they answered her, there is not any of your family of that name. they therefore ask'd his father to signify how he would have him call'd. read more. then he made signs for a writing-book, and writ these words, "his name is John:" at which they were all surprized. immediately he had the use of his speech: and he uttered himself in praises to God. All the neighbourhood were struck with reverence, and the rumour of these events ran thro' all the mountains of Judea, and made an impression upon all that heard of them. what a child will this be? said they, for the divine influence does attend him. Then Zacharias his father, inspired by the holy spirit, vented his divine enthusiasm in these words. "blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he hath regarded and wrought a deliverance for his people:
then Saul, who was nam'd likewise Paul, full of the holy spirit, look'd fixedly upon him,
he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches: to him that overcometh, will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man understands, except he that receives it."
THEN I looked, and I saw a lamb on mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his name and his father's name writ on their foreheads.
he had a vesture dipt in blood: and his name is called, the logos of God.