Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:

“Creator of the First Day”: The Glossing of Lord of Sabaoth in D&C 95:7

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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Published:
9/30/2016
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Digest / 5.25" x 8.25"
32 pages Saddle-stitched
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Religion
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apologetics, lds, mormon, Mormonism

The calqued name-title “Lord of Sabaoth,” echoing James 5:4, occurs four times in the Doctrine and Covenants in revelations given to the prophet Joseph Smith from December 25, 1832 to August 6, 1833. Of these occurrences, only D&C 95:7 offers a gloss or interpretation for the name “the Lord of Sabaoth,” which is, by interpretation, “the creator of the first day, the beginning and the end.” Upon close inspection, this explanation makes excellent sense from an ancient Israelite etiological as well as (perhaps) an etymological standpoint. Past criticisms of the gloss in D&C 95:7 have focused on the wrongly assumed incongruity of “first day” and “Sabaoth” (“hosts”), and have neglected function of the divine name Yhwh in titles, most often represented in scripture by the term “Lord,” as in the calqued name-title Lord of Hosts.

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