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TRANSLATIONS, ENGLISH BIBLE.

1. Early Versions. There were portions of the Bible, and possibly the entire work, rendered into the English vernacular very early in the history of the language. These, however, were all made from the Latin, and not from the original Hebrew.

The early Versions directly translated the Latin word Dominus to the modern English word we all know today as Lord, which is still causing the world to forget Yahweh's Name for Baal Jeremiah (Yeremyah 23:27).

In early versions, the Greek word Ie-sous was shortened to the Latin Iesus. It was not until the year 1064 C.E. that the popular name Jesus was placed in the Scriptures. There was not even a "J" sound in the English language until that century. We must remember also, the fact that there is no "J" in the Hebrew language. Even the modern English "J" was not in use until the sixteenth century of our own Common Era.

This new name (Yeshua) was being used as the replacement for Yahshua's true Name, by the time the Septuagint (LXX) was beginning to be translated. The Greek word written in this version to replace the name that had replaced Yahshua's Name, is - a direct transliteration of the Hebrew word Yeshua.

The next version of the Bible, after the Greek Septuagint (LXX), was the Vulgate—attributed to Jerome. In the year 383 C.E., Jerome began to work on this Latin Version. He undertook the revision of the Old Testament directly from the Septuagint Version.

In the Septuagint, the Name of Yahweh was replaced with the Greek word, Kyrios - Lord. In the Latin Vulgate, Jerome directly translated the Greek word Kyrios - Lord to the Latin word for Lord - Dominus. In the Latin Vulgate, Jerome transliterated the Greek word to the Latin, Iesus.

Unger's Bible Dictionary, page 1113, tells us of the earliest, early Versions of the translated English Bibles.

The Dictionary of New Testament Theology, Volume 2, pages 330-331, gives us more information about this widely accepted, yet incorrect name.

OT Ie-sous is the Greek. form of the Old Testament Jewish name Ye-šûa`, arrived at by transcribing the Hebrew and adding an -s to the nom. to facilitate declension. Ye-šûa` (Joshua) seems to have come into general use about the time of the Babylonian exile in place of the older Y^ehôsûa . The LXX rendered both the ancient and more recent forms of the name uniformly as Ie-sous... It is the oldest name containing the devine name Yahweh, and means "Yahweh is help" or "Yahweh is salvation" (cf. the vb. yasa`, help, save). Joshua also appears in one post-exilic passage in the Heb. Old Testament (Nehemiah 8:17) as Ye-šûa` the son of Nun, and not as in the older texts Y^ehôšoa.

The Encyclopedia Dictionary of the Bible, by Louis Hartman, pages 1141-1142, shows us this:

Jesus. This name in English is a transcription of the Latin Jesus, which represents the Greek form, of the Hebrew name, yeš­a` (à Jesua), itself a late form, by vowel dissimilation, of yoš­a` (Jesua), a contracted form of y^ehos­a` , "Yahweh is salvation."

The form Yeshua or Jesus was a deliberate change from the original Name Yahshua, as the same pages of this same source shows:

Jesua. In the last few centuries before Christ the personal name, yos­­a was pronounced and written as yeš­a.

The Harper Bible Dictionary, by Paul Achtemeier, page 474, shows us that the form Yeshua or Jesus is not even a Hebrew name.

Jeshua (jesh´oo-uh; Heb., "Yahweh is salvation"), the Aramaic form of Joshua.

Rather than this name being correctly written and spoken YAHSHUA (containing Yahweh's powerful Name), its new fo

The New Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7, pages 970-971, tells us of the name Jesus:

JESUS (THE NAME). In English the name Jesus is a transliteration of the Latin form Iesus, which represents the Greek form of the Hebrew name ye-šûa`. The latter is a late form, by vowel dissimilation, of the name yôšûa`, itself a contracted form of yhôšûa`, "Yahweh is salvation." This was the name of Moses' successor. *Josue (Joshua), son of Nun. Both because of the fame of this early hero of Israel and because of the meaning of the name, many men both in the OT and in the NT bore the name of Josue or Jesus. The Septuigint generally uses the Greek form where the Hebrew text has the form yôšûa` or y'hôšûa`. So also the New Testament, in referring to Josue, son of Nun, calls him Jesus (Acts 7:45; Hebrew 4:8). An allusion is made in Matthew 1:21 to the meaning of the name ("Yahweh is salvation"): Joseph is told by the angel of the Lord to name the child born of Mary's virginal conception "Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins."

The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, by Kittel and Bromley, Volume 3, page 289, tells us:

The Name Yahshua is just such a compound Name. It is a combination of Yahweh's Name in a personal name (YAH: yod-heh) and SHUA (shin-ayin), which means salvation. The Hebrew-English Lexicon of the Old Testament,by Brown, Driver, and Briggs, page 221, tells us that the Name Yahshua means Yahweh is salvation.

The Hebraic Tongue Restored, by Fabre d'Olivet, page 462, gives us this information concerning the Hebrew word, shua. We find that this word comes from the word yasha:

Gesenius' Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament, page 811, tells us:

The Hebrew-English Lexicon of the Old Testament, by Brown, Driver, and Briggs, page 447, tells us about the word yasha.

Thus we have + (yod-heh-waw-shin-ayin). This name is correctly pronounced YAH-SHU-A, since the letter waw in this compound is silent, just as The Hebraic Tongue Restored, by Fabre d'Olivet, pages 112-113, tells us.

Conjunctive or Convertible Article.--This article in uniting nouns, causes the movement of nothingness, of which the character W becomes the sign, as we have seen: in making actions pass from one time to another, it exercises upon them the convertible faculty of which this same character is the universal emblem. Its conjunctive movement can be rendered by: and, also, thus, then, afterward,that, etc. But its convertible movement is not expressible in our tongueand I do not know of any in which it can be expressed. In order to perceive it one must feel the Hebraic genius.

We have sufficient proof showing that the Name of Yahweh has been completely erased from the Holy Scriptures and from common knowledge and use altogether, because of the man-made traditions of our forefathers and rabbis.

The Century Bible, Volume 1, pages 90-91, tells us the following.

Sometime after the return from the Captivity, and before the beginning of the Christian Era, the Yahdaim (Jews) came to believe that the Holy Name Yahweh was too sacred to be uttered on ordinary occasions. It was said to be pronounced by the High Priest on the Day of Atonement. At other times, when any one read or quoted aloud from what is called the Old Testament, the word "Adonay", "Lord," was usually substituted for YAHWEH, and similarly the LXX (Septuagint Version) has Kurios,the Vulgate dominus, and the e.v. lord, where the Hebrew has YAHWEH. Hebrew was originally written without vowels, but when the "vowel points" were added, the vowels of "Adonay" or "Elohim" were written with YAHWEH, as a direction that these words were to be read instead of the word whose consonants were YAHWEH; thus we find the combinations YeHoWaH and YeHoWiH. At the Reformation, the former being the more usual, was sometimes used as the Name of the (Mighty One) of Israyl, and owing to ignorance of its history was misread as "Jehovah," a form which has established itself in English, but does not give the pronunciation of the Holy Name it represents.

The Prophet Yeremyah warned that this practice of removing Yahweh's Name would be handed down to us from the unfaithful priests, interpreters and scribes, when the Hebrew Scriptures were first translated to Greek, then to Latin, and finally to English.

Yeremyah 8:8—How can you say; We are the wise, and the Law of Yahweh is with us? Behold, the lying pen of the scribes has falsified them, and written them wrong!

That's why, today, we have foolish sounding names like "Jesus",' which do not honor or glorify our Heavenly Father Yahweh, because they carry none of the original intent and meaning.

The Name of the Savior Presented By the Prophets

One of the first things we should learn in our search for the true Savior is His Name. The importance of knowing this Man's Name cannot be overstated. Names were and are very important to the Hebrew people, and their meanings are of great significance, not only to individuals, but also to entire families.

The name Jesus is an invention of man which in no way carries the meaning of the true Name of this Man mentioned in the New Testament. The simple fact (which is easily proven from authoritative sources) is that this man was born a Hebrew and He had a Hebrew name. There is no such name as Jesus in the Hebrew language.

Reading from The Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 10, page 10, we find that the supposed name Jesus is actually the common Greek form of the Hebrew name Joshua.

JESUS (d. 30 c.e.), whom Christianity sees as its founder and object of faith, was a Jew who lived toward the end of the Second Commonwealth period.

THE NAME, BIRTH, AND DEATH DATE OF JESUS. Jesus is the common Greek form of the Hebrew name Joshua. Jesus' father, Joseph, his mother, Mary (in Hebrew. Miriam), and his brothers James (in Hebrew Yaaqob), Joses (Yahseph), Judah, and Simon (Mark 6:3) likewise bore very popular Hebrew names.

The Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 12, page 805, gives us additional information, concerning the Hebrew spelling of Joshua, which is yod-heh-waw-shin-ayin.

This source also points out to us that this Name, correctly pronounced Yahshua, is a compound name constructed with the Tetragrammaton,which is the Name: YAHWEH, . The Name Yahshua follows the common practice among the true worshippers of Yahweh, in forming and using compound names which brought glory to Yahweh's Name.

The Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume 9, page 153, tells us this about compound names which glorify Yahweh: A distinctive characteristic of Bible onomatology is the frequency of composite names, which form at times even complete sentences, as in the case of Isaiah's son Shear-jashub (="the remnant shall return"). In the majority of cases these composite names are theophorous, referring to, or actually mentioning...the name of YHWH.>

The Interpreter's Dictionary, Volume 3, page 505, tells us: There is an increasing tendency, especially in the 7th Century B.C. to use compound names which state a fact or express a wish... The most numerous are names compounded with 'YAH'... which number over 150 and are almost entirely personal or family names.

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