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Emanuel Swedenborg on the Name Jehovah
From The Heavenly Arcana Disclosed which are in the Sacred Scripture Or Word of the Lord, Volume 1
Speaking of Genesis 6:12: "That a state not of the church is here treated of, is evident from the fact that here and in the following verses of this chapter the name God is used, but in preceding verses He was called Jehovah. When there is not a church He is called God, and when there is a church He is called Jehovah—just as in the first chapter of Genesis, when there was no church, He was called God; but in the second chapter, when there was a church, He was called Jehovah God. The name Jehovah is most holy, and belongs only to the church; but the name God is not so holy, for there was no nation that had not gods, and therefore the name God was not so holy. No one was permitted to speak the name Jehovah unless he had knowledge of the true faith; but any one might speak the name God."
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