THE NAMES OF GOD

NAMES OF GOD IN THE BIBLE: A DISPENSATIONAL APPROACH : PROF. M. M. NINAN
H V H Y
Behold Nail Behold Hand
Can be read as:
Hand behold, Nail behold.
Describes Jesus who has the nail pierced palms.
Or as:
The Right Hand that brings life through the nail pierced hands.
God is not a static God. He is not a machine with his laws and behaviour embeded within him. He is a
living being. Though his character as LOVE never changes, because of that his reaction to events,
people changes. History is not predetermined. Here is the indeterminacy within the history and the
freedom of will of sons of God and their role as co-creators with God. God as a person has one
unchangable character which is “GOD IS LOVE”. God is the first self-evolved living being.
(http://www.morasha.it/zehut/fa01_ehye.html)
Moses Mendelssohn translates the whole passage with a long periphrasis, rather than to appeal to a
concise translation as the previous German experts:
“God spoke to Moses: I am the Eternal Being. And He said: So you spoke to the children of Israel: The
Eternal Being, who names Himself "I am eternal" sent me to you”
The reasons which led him to translate in that particular way èhyèh ashèr èhyèh:
"I am who I am": according to Midrash (Berakot 9b), the Saint (can He always be blessed) said to
Moses: Tell them, I am who I was and now I am the same and I will be the same in the future [and
furthermore our rabbis of venerable memory said: I will be with them in this sufferance as well as I am
with them in the slavery under others reigns. They wanted to tell that], past and future are in the
present of Creator, seeing that there are no changed and no fixed time for Him (Jb. 10,17) and no one
of His days is never spent. For Him all times are called with the same name and with an only
expression which includes past, present and future".
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