Preface
Some time since the Writer was requested to lecture upon a
subject which involved a study of the Names and Titles of the Deity. The
preparation of the necessary material suggested the value of a more extended
study, and finally gave rise to the publication of the matter contained herein.
Originally, attention was confined to the Hebrew Names of God as used in the Old
Testament, but as the subject was worked out it seemed desirable to consider
those used in the New Testament. Finally, the last section dealing with the
Names and Titles of the Lord Jesus Christ was added.
The subject cannot fail to be of great interest to all who heed the words of
Jesus:
”This is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.”
To know God is the highest intellectual attainment possible to
man. His Names and Titles are means to that knowledge, and it is hoped that this
attempt to explain them and to indicate where the various Names and Titles are
used will be helpful to many. An appreciation of what is involved in them will
raise the subject far above a merely intellectual one, and a knowledge of God
will be found to transform the life and affections, for he who knows God will
love God.
The information contained in this work is culled from various sources, mainly
lexicons and kindred works. It is not issued with any pretensions to scholarship
on the part of the Writer, who claims no real knowledge of the original
languages. Those who are familiar with the writings of Dr. Thomas will realise
how much of what is here written is due to his expositions of the Divine Names.
I wrought for My name’s sake (Ezek. xx. 9).
God at the first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name (Acts xv. 14).