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Rh times, when the letter Daleth in it is doubled, and the word receives an initial guttural sound—thus Addonai—[it signifies], "One who bounds and separates the land from the water," so that the water should not subsequently submerge the land. In like manner also, Sabaoth, when it is spelled by a Greek Omega in the last syllable [Sabaōth], denotes "a voluntary agent;" but when it is spelled with a Greek Omicron—as, for instance, Sabaŏth—it expresses "the first heaven." In the same way, too, the word Jaōth, when the last syllable is made long and aspirated, denotes "a predetermined measure;" but when it is written shortly by the Greek letter Omicron, namely Jaŏth, it signifies "one who puts evils to flight." All the other expressions likewise bring out the title of one and the same Being; as, for example (in English ), The Lord of Powers, The Father of all, God Almighty, The Most High, The Creator, The Maker, and such like. These are not the names and titles of a succession of different beings, but of one and the same, by means of which the one God and