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Appendix

Jehovah’s Distinctive Name, His Sovereignty and Godship

1A The Divine Name in the Hebrew Scriptures

1B Scribal Changes Involving the Divine Name

1C The Divine Name in Ancient Greek Versions

1D The Divine Name in the Christian Greek Scriptures

1E “Sovereign Lord”—Heb., ʼAdho·naiʹ

1F “The [true] God”—Heb., ha·ʼElo·himʹ

1G “The [true] God”—Heb., ha·ʼElʹ

1H “The [true] Lord”—Heb., ha·ʼAdhohnʹ

1J Titles and Descriptive Terms Applying to Jehovah

Hebrew Scribal Notations

2A Extraordinary Points—Puncta extraordinaria

2B Emendations (Corrections) of the Sopherim—“Tiqqune Sopherim”

2C Scribal Changes Involving the Divine Name

Biblical Language Information

3A Hebrew and Greek Transliterations

3B Hebrew Prefixes and Suffixes

3C Hebrew Verbs Indicating Continuous or Progressive Action

Condition of the Living and of the Dead

4A “Soul”—A Living Creature, Human or Animal; Life as an Intelligent Person; Other Uses

4B “Sheol,” “Hades”—The Common Grave of Mankind; Gravedom

4C “Gehenna”—Symbol of Complete Destruction

4D “Tartarus”

Scriptural Clarifications

5A “Fornication”—Every Kind of Unlawful Sexual Intercourse

5B Christ’s Presence (Parousia)

5C “Torture Stake”

5D The Releasing to Be With Christ

Jehovah and Jesus—Two Distinct Persons

6A Jesus—A Godlike One; Divine

6B “Three Witness Bearers”

6C With the Blood of God’s Own Son

6D “God, Who Is Over All”

6E “Of the Great God and of [the] Savior of Us, Christ Jesus”

6F Jesus—In Existence Before Abraham

Additional Information

7A Cobras Responding to Sound

7B Repellent Questions Indicating Objection

7C Jesus Resurrected on the Day “After the Sabbath”

7D “Covenant” Used in the Ancient Hebrew Sense

7E The Expressions “The Old Testament” and “The New Testament”

Conversion Tables

8A Money, Weights, Measures

8B The Calendar Months of the Bible

Maps and Charts

9A Territory of the TRIBES OF ISRAEL

9B MAP FOR GENESIS—Area of Canaan

9C The Tabernacle, With Ground Plan

9D Temple in Solomon’s Time

9E Jerusalem in the Days of Solomon

9F Temple Rebuilt by Herod, With Ground Plan

9G Jerusalem and Its Walls After the Babylonian Exile