If the personal name of God is so important to the watchtower why not call him by his more accurate name? Whatchtower liturature cleared this up some. While inclining to view the pronunciation Yah.weh as the more correct way, we have retained the form Jehovah because of peoples familiarity with it since the 14th century. The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, 1969, pp. p. 23. Notice they use it not for accuracy but the traditions of men. They also give us some info on its origins. By combining the vowel signs of Adho.nay and Elo.him with the four consonants of the Tetragrammaton the pronunciations Yeho.wah and Yehowih were formed. The first of these provided the basis for the Latinized form Jehova(h). The first recorded use of this form dates from the thirteenth century C.E. Raymundus Martini, a Spanish monk of the Dominican Order, used it in his book Pugeo Fidei of the year 1270. Hebrew scholars generally favor Yahweh as the most likely pronunciation. Aid to Bible Understanding, Watchtower Bible And Tract Society, 1971, pp. 884, 885. It has Catholic origins.
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