Isaiah 56:5 Even to them will I give in my house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters… Our greatest poet asks, "What's in a name?" but whoever reads his Bible carefully will see that the Jews attached very great importance to names. Thus we often find in the Bible that the name of a person is used when the person himself is meant, as for example, " The name of the God of Jacob defend thee; — we will call upon the name of the Lord; — let their name be blotted out that they may be no more a nation." Jewish parents never gave their children a name for the sake of its sound, but because it expressed some peculiarity in the child, or some circumstance connected with its birth, or some wish for its future career. God Himself set this example when He named the first man Adam — "red earth" — to commemorate the fact that dust he was, and unto dust he should return. Parallel Verses KJV: Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. |
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