7. For God and Lord is a name of majesty, a
name of power, even as God Himself saith: “The Lord is My
name,” Ex. iii. 15. and as in
another place the prophet declareth: “The Lord Almighty is
His name.” “Ego
Dominus; hoe est nomen meum.”—Vulg.,
Is. xlii. 8. “I am the Lord, that is My
name.”—A.V. 1611, ibid. God is He,
therefore, and Lord, either because His rule is over all, or because He
beholdeth all things, and is feared by all, without
difference. The word
Θεός,
“God,” is derived by most authorities from θεᾶσθαι, which
means “to look upon.” Here we have another derivation
suggested, viz., from δέος, “fear,” on this
ground that God inspires fear.—H. Neither derivation is
correct. The best perhaps is given by Herodotus (II. 52), viz.,
from the verb τίθημι, to place, set,
array, the idea being that God is the principal of all order and
law.