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Three
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary
or I pause over this number to make a short observation concerning what we read of the sacred Three in one described by the Apostle John, and which bears a beautiful and glorious correspondence to all the testimonies of the holy writers in the Bible. "For there are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Son and Holy Ghost, and these three are one." (1 John 5:7) It is somewhat remarkable that the word Trinity is never used by any of the sacred writers: that is to say, by the translators of the Bible into our mother tongue, while they are so express in numberless instances, giving the sum and substance of it. Evidently many of the old Rabbi gave distinct names to each glorious person of the GODHEAD, as their writings testify. They called the Father, JEHOVAH, and the Son, the Word or Memur: and the Holy Ghost, Ruach. And they expressed the union of those Three Glorious persons by the word Shalithith, which is as near as possible the word Trinity. It must be confessed, (for it maybe be very safely allowed without the smallest injury to the true faith,) that there are numbers among the Jews of modern times, who from the ignorance of their mind and blinded understanding, are looking for the Messiah in the simple humanity of the man, and know nothing of JEHOVAH in his threefold personality of character. But these do by no means invalidate the true faith, any more than Socinians and Arians, by their denial of the GODHEAD of Christ. The ancient descendants of Abraham, and it is to be hoped the modern stock of Israel, though overlooking the time, have lost not sight of his Almighty person. They know what the prophet said to be true concerning the Messiah, and expected him in that character. "Behold, your God shall come and save you." (Isaiah 35:4)
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Hawker, Robert D.D. Entry for 'Three'. Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance and Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/pmd/t/three.html. London. 1828.
