This prohibition was no ordinary affair: Itcalled for a penalty of death on one who dared to utter it, and this taboo hasbeen more successful than all the “DO’s” and “DON’T’s” of the Ten
Commandmentsput together.
If Jehovah is the name of God, and if the 27Books of the New Testament were inspired by Him, then it is an anomaly of thehighest order, that He (Jehovah) signally failed to have His Own Name recordedin “His Word” (N.T.) the Christian addition to the Jewish Bible. The Christiansclaim that they have in their possession over twenty-four thousand so-called“originals” of their Holy Writ in the Greek language, and yet not a singleparchment has “Jehovah” written in it. Curiously this “name of God” (?) hasbeen sacrilegiously replaced by the Greek words kyrios and theos’, which mean‘Lord’ and ‘God.’ Yet, miracle of miracles - Alleluya! - no devil or saint hasbeen able to eliminate the word “Allah” from the so-called New
Testament of theChristians.
The “Tetragrammaton”
Why not for a change ask him, a question ortwo. Ask him where he got the word Jehovah from? He will surely reply - “Fromthe Holy Bible.” What does it say? Does it spell out the word Jehovah? “No,” hewill reply. “There is a ‘tetragrammaton’ in the Bible from which the wordJehovah is derived.” What is a tetragrammaton?
No one seems to have heard this highly mysticalterm. In the University of Illinois in the U.S.A. I asked a gathering ofstudents and lecturers whether any one had heard this jaw-breaker! Not one ofthem knew its meaning! But every Jehovah’s Witness seems to know, even thecommonest of them. They have really specialised - ours is a world of special isat ion. They are Professors of the one word - Jehovah.
What then is a “tetragrammaton!” The Jehovah’sWitness replies, “Y H W H!” “No!” “What I want to know from you is, what doesthe word tetragrammaton mean?” You will find him most reluctant in explaining.Either he does not really know, or he is feeling embarrassed in replying.“Tetra,” in Greek means four, and “grammaton,” means letters. It simply means“a four letter word.”
Can you read into Y H W H the word Jehovah? Icannot. “No!”, says the Jehovah’s Witness, “we ought to add vowels to thesefour consonants to produce the sound. Originally, both Hebrew and Arabic werewritten without the vowel signs The native of each language was able to read ifeven without those vowels. Not so the outsider, for whose benefit the vowelswere invented.
The “J” sickness
Let us add the vowels as the “Witness”suggests. YHWH becomes YeHoWaH. Juggle as you like but you can never materialiseJehovah! Ask him, from which hat he drew his “J”. He will tell you that “thisis the ‘popular’ pronunciation from the 16th century.” The exact sound of thefour letters YHWH is known neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles, yet he isramming Jehovah down every ones throats. The European Christians have developeda fondness (sickness) for the letter “J” They add J’s where there are no Jays.Look!
Yael > he converts to Joel
Yehuda > he converts to Juda
Yeheshua > he converts to Joshua
Yusuf > he converts to Joseph
Yunus > he converts to Jonah
Yesus > he converts to Jesus
Yehowa > he converts to Jehovah
