have been termed, are all included in the name _Jehovah_; and are the proper interpretation of it.[2] The Jews had a superstitious respect for this name; and, after the Babylonian captivity, discontinued the use of it, which caused them soon to forget its true pronunciation. They called it the _Tetragrammaton_, or four-lettered name of God, which, to the present day, the Jews will neither write nor pronounce. They deemed it to be ineffable; and therefore when it occurred in reading the Scriptures; substituted אדני _Adonai_. The Jews tell us that the woman’s son, mentioned in Lev. xxxiv, 11, was accused of blasphemy and stoned to death, because he pronounced the name _Jehovah_. But I conceive, that he had spoken contemptuously of God. We read, verse 10, that he and a man of Israel strove together, and it is probable that the Israelite, in the heat of contention, would deny his being a member of the church of God, because he was the son of an Egyptian father who was an idolater; whereupon, no doubt, the son of the Israelitish woman spoke scornfully and opprobriously of the God of Israel, despising the privilege of being one of his people. This, I imagine, was the blasphemy of which he was accused, and for which he was condemned and stoned to death; and not for pronouncing the name of _Jehovah_ only. The Seventy who translated the Old Testament into Greek, at the desire of Ptolemy Philadelphus, King of Egypt, about the 124th Olympiad, were also very sparing in the use of this name _Jehovah_; and therefore did not render it according to the sacred import of the Hebrew, but changed it into the word Κυριος, _Lord_, which is of the same signification with _Adonai_ in the Hebrew. Origen, Jerome, and Eusebius, testify, that, in their time, the Jews left the name _Jehovah_ written in their copies with Samaritan characters, instead of the common Chaldee or Hebrew characters. And those divines, who at the command of King James translated the Scriptures anew into English, have very rarely used the word _Jehovah_, but rendered it _Lord_. Yet we may observe, that when this word _Lord_ is substituted for _Jehovah_, it is printed in large Roman letters. It is to be wished, that the name _Jehovah_ had been preserved in the English translation of the Scriptures, and especially in those passages whose sense entirely depends on the meaning of the word.