Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
This is my name for ever - The name here referred to is that which immediately precedes, Yehovah Elohim , which we translate the Lord God, the name by which God had been known from the creation of the world, (see Genesis 2:4). and the name by which he is known among the same people to the present day. Even the heathens knew this name of the true God; and hence out of our Yehovah they formed their Jao, Jeve, and Jove; so that the word has been literally fulfilled, This is my memorial unto all generations. See Clarke' s note on the word Elohim, Genesis 1:1 (note). As to be self-existent and eternal must be attributes of God for ever, does it not follow that the leolam , for ever, in the text signifies eternity? "This is my name to eternity - and my memorial," ledor dor , "to all succeeding generations." While human generations continue he shall be called the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; but when time shall be no more, he shall be Jehovah Elohim. Hence the first expression refers to his eternal existence, the latter to the discovery he should make of himself as long as time should last. See Genesis 21:33. Diodorus Siculus says, that "among the Jews, Moses is reported to have received his laws from the God named Jao ," , i.e., Jeue, Jove, or Jeve; for in all these ways the word Yehovah may be pronounced; and in this way I have seen it on Egyptian monuments. See Diod., lib. l., c. xciv.
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