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"THE FIRST NAME OF GOD"
"The very first Name employed by God
to identify Himself to the Jewish people
and to the World is revealed in the very first sentence of the Hebrew Bible:
בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ , which is traditionally transliterated
and pronounced as:
Bereshit bara Elohim et HaShamayim v'et HaAretz,
and which is traditionally translated as:
“In the Beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth.”
(Genesis 1:1).
"During the Islamic Occupation of the Land of Israel
(which began in the 7th Century CE),
a group of resident Jewish scholars, known as the Masoretes,
created and added diacritical symbols to the text of the Hebrew Bible,
so that all issues with respect to pronunciation
and meaning would be settled and, thereafter, be beyond disputation."
"The diacritical symbols that the Masoretes added to the Name of God אלהים rendered this Name as אֱלֹהִים, which dictated that this Name be pronounced as
Elohim...."
"Nonetheless, with appropriate adornment or context,
even אל often refers to the One God
(e.g., אל עליון, transliterated as “El Elyon”, meaning “God Most High”
-- Genesis 14:18;
"and אל שדי, transliterated as “El Shadai”, meaning “God Almighty”
-- Genesis 17:1;
"and אל עולם, transliterated as “El Olam”, meaning “God of the Universe” -- Genesis 21:33;
"and place names such as בית-אל, transliterated as “Bethel”,
meaning “House of God” -- Genesis 28:19;
"personal names such as דניאל, transliterated as “Daniel”,
meaning “God is My Judge” -- Daniel 1:6;
"and those circumstances in which it is otherwise clear
that אל, standing alone, is the Name of God אל,
such as the employment of that Name by the gentile prophet Balaam
-- see Numbers 23:8, 23:19, 23:22 and 23:23)."
...
"God Created with the heavens whatsoever are in the heavens,
and with the earth whatsoever are in the earth; that is,
the substance of all things in them;
"or all things in them were seminally together:..
"These are said to be "created", that is, to be made out of nothing;
for what pre-existent matter to this chaos could there be
out of which they could be formed?
"And the Apostle says,
"through faith we understand that the worlds
were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen
were not made of things which do appear",
Hebrews 11:3.
"And though this word "created", בָּרָ֣א (bā·rā), ...as Nachmanides observes,
there is not in the holy language any word but this here used,
"by which is signified the bringing anything into being out of nothing;
... a production of something into being out of nothing; ...
creation is making some new thing,
and a bringing something out of nothing:
and it deserves notice, that this word is only used of God;
"and creation must be the Work of God,
for none but an Almighty Power
could produce something out of nothing."
"The word used is Elohimö, which some derive from another,
which signifies power, Creation being an Act of Almighty Power:
but it is rather to be derived from the root of the Arabic language,
which signifies to Worship (f),
"God is the object of all religious Worship and Adoration;
and very properly does Moses make use of this appellation here,
to teach us, that He Who is the Creator of the heavens and the earth
is the Sole Object of Worship; as He was of the Worship of the Jewish nation,
at the head of which Moses was.
"It is in the plural number and is joined to a verb of the singular
is thought by many to be designed to point unto us the mystery of a plurality,
or Trinity of Persons in the Unity of the Divine Essence:
"but whether or not; this is sufficient to support that doctrine,
which is to be established without it;
"yet there is no doubt to be made,
that all the three Persons in the Godhead
were concerned with the creation of all things, see
Psalm 33:6.
(f) אלה "coluit, unde",
Numen, pl. numina, is a Latin term.
It is used for "divinity", a "divine presence" or a "divine will."
אלוה (God) "numen colendum",
Colendum, Participle, colendus (masc.)
(fem. colenda, neut. colendum)
- which is to be cultivated
- which is to be protected
Schultens in Job i:1;
"he feared God",
Golius, Col 144. Hottinger. Smegma, p. 120.
"God is the Object of all religious Worship and Adoration;
and very properly does Moses make use of this appellation here,
to teach us, that he who is the Creator of the heavens and the earth
is the Sole Object of Worship;
"as He was of the Worship of the Jewish nation,
at the head of which Moses was.
"It is in the plural number, and is joined to a verb of the singular,
is thought by many to be designed to point unto us
the mystery of a plurality, or Trinity of Persons
in the Unity of the Divine Essence:
"but whether or no;
this is sufficient to support that doctrine,
which is to be established without it;
"yet there is no doubt to be made,
that all the three Persons in the Godhead
were concerned in the Creation of all things, see
Psalm 33:6;
"By the word of the LORD were the heavens made;
and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth."
“In the beginning ˒ĕlōhı̂m Created the heavens and the earth”
(Genesis 1:1)
...."in the beginning of the Creation, when God first began to create;
and is best explained by our Lord,
"the beginning of the creation which God created", Mark 13:19.
...."in wisdom God created"; see Proverbs 3:19,
and some of the ancients have interpreted it
of the Wisdom of God, the Logos and Son of God."
....the creation, "had a beginning...owing to...
the Power and Wisdom of God,
the First Cause and Sole Author of all things;
"and that there was not anything created
before the heaven and the earth were:
"hence those phrases,
"before the foundation of the world",
and "before the world began", etc., are expressive of Eternity."
