[77] אקרא בשמו for יקֹרא בשמי.
[78] See [Introduction].
[79] So the grammar of the original.
[80] Vol. i., pp. 144, 334.
[81] Isa. xxxi.
[82] Hosea xi. 9.
[83] Ch. lv. 8, 9.
[84] Ibid. ver. 11.
[85] From to-day on, Ez. xlviii. 35; but others take it Also to-day I am He.
[86] Renan's theory of the "natural monotheism" of the Semites was first published in his Histoire des Langues Semitiques some forty years ago. Nearly every Semitic scholar of repute found some occasion or other to refute it. But with Renan's charming genius for neglecting all facts that disturb an artistic arrangement of his subject, the overwhelming evidence against the natural monotheism of the Semite has been ignored by him, and he repeats his theory unmodified in his Histoire du Peuple d'Israel, i., 31, published 1888.