Jerome's support of Jehova pronunciation in Psalm 8 commentary

Steven Avery

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Tetragrammaton: Western Christians and the Hebrew Name of God: From the Beginnings to the Seventeenth Century (2015)
Robert J. Wilkinson
https://books.google.com/books?id=1xyoBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA467


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Drusius’s work was exceptionally thorough and learned. He considered the philology of the case, rabbinic and patristic material, ancient versions, and the opinions of previous scholars, both Christian and rabbinic. Jehova is not found anywhere in their evidence, though Psalm 8 in Jerome’s commentary appears an exception. There, the text Domine Dominus noster has its first Domine identified as the Tetragrammaton, “which may be pronounced Jehova” (et legi potest Jehova)! Drusius first disputes Jerome’s authorship, but then contrasts the reading of the editio Plantiniana Jehova’ unfavourably with that of the superior editio Frobeniana 'Jao'. The latter being no doubt the correct reading. Judicient eruditi.

Thereafter there followed a multitude almost without number: Cajetanus, Lipomanus, Jerome of Oleander, Marinus Victorius, Marcus Marinus, and almost all the Reformed theologians, including Tremeliius and Beza.
 
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Steven Avery

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Haydock
https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/hcc/psalms-8.html

O Lord, (Jehova) our Lord, (Adonenu). (St. Jerome) Dominator noster, "our Ruler." (Haydock) --- God is Lord of all by creation, and still more of those who believe. (Worthington) --- Adonai is pronounced by the Jews, and sometimes applied to men. But they have lost the pronunciation of the first term, which some read Jehovah, (Calmet) or Jaho, (St. Jerome) Jave, &c. (Haydock) --- Admirable. It expresses all that He is. (Exodus iii. 14.; Berthier) Essence itself. (Haydock) --- Earth. This was verified after the incarnation; (St. Chrysostom) for before, the Gentiles knew it not, and the Jews caused it to be blasphemed. (Berthier) --- Now all confess the glory of Jesus Christ, the master-piece of God. (Calmet) --- Heavens; which are nothing in comparison, (Menochius) for he hath created them. (Worthington) (Habacuc iii. 3.)
 
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