. From this they produce, by such letters, in their more elaborate amulets, the noted symbol
מצפץ
, which is nothing else than the name of God,
יהוה
. St. Jerome,[[52]] a celebrated father of the early church, contends that the prophet Jeremiah used this kind of writing, and not to irritate the king of Babylon against the Hebrews, for king,
בבל
, said
ששך
. But some, also, among the Jews, declare that these words in Daniel,
מנא מנא תקל ופרסין,