06-16-2011, 03:47 PM
distazo Wrote:But do we agree that all dictionaries are wrong on this to have 'Lord' or LORD for MRY instead of Lord-Yah or Lord God or whatever other variation?
Any dictionary or lexicon listing MRYA as the Emphatic for MRA is incorrect.
Mar Ephraem from the 4th century, rather than trying to define it, said it's an acronym that stands for:
Meem: Marutha ("lordship")
Resh: Rabbutha ("majesty")
Yodh-Aleph: Ethya ("self-existence')
The last part is the telling. Here Mar Ephraem tells us plainly that he believed the Yodh-Aleph (which are the only two letters he grouped together in the acronym) stood for the name of God, YHWH, which clearly means "self-existent" in Hebrew.
Not too different from our little theory, or is it identical?
Case solved? Debate settled ?
+Shamasha