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ception of the true God, this tetragram is often conjointly
with Elohim applied to Him. The Arabic form, Rabb Allah,
corresponds to the Hebrew form, Yahwah Elohim.
The other word, "Adon," signifies a "Commander, Lord,
and master," or the same as the Arabic and Turkish nouns
Amir, Sayyid, and Agha. Adon stands as the opposite term
of "soldier, slave, and property." Consequently the first part
of the distich is to be rendered as "God said to my Lord."
David, in his capacity of a monarch, was himself the
Lord and Commander of every Israelite and the Master of
the Kingdom. Whose "servant" was he, then? David,
being a powerful sovereign, could not be, as a matter of fact,
a slave or worshiper of any living human being whatsoever.
Nor is it imaginable that he would call "his Lord" any dead
with Elohim applied to Him. The Arabic form, Rabb Allah,
corresponds to the Hebrew form, Yahwah Elohim.
The other word, "Adon," signifies a "Commander, Lord,
and master," or the same as the Arabic and Turkish nouns
Amir, Sayyid, and Agha. Adon stands as the opposite term
of "soldier, slave, and property." Consequently the first part
of the distich is to be rendered as "God said to my Lord."
David, in his capacity of a monarch, was himself the
Lord and Commander of every Israelite and the Master of
the Kingdom. Whose "servant" was he, then? David,
being a powerful sovereign, could not be, as a matter of fact,
a slave or worshiper of any living human being whatsoever.
Nor is it imaginable that he would call "his Lord" any dead