The record of the New Testament must stand as its own original authority, for it has no other authentic source. We are bound, therefore, to take, accept, and follow, its own statements for what they appear. A Greek sentence, lettering Hebrew words, must be rendered into the Hebrew agreeably to the equivalents of the letters in the Greek text. For instance, and in this case, there are two words in the Hebrew square letter, of the same sound but of different letters and meaning. One is the Chaldee

: and the other is the Hebrew

. The first is, anglicé, “shâbâk,” meaning to forsake, and the other is shâbâch, meaning to glorify. These words are the ones supposed to be substituted for the word used in the Psalm, azabthani, the pure word for “forsaken me.” If in the Greek text, which is the only guide and authority we have, the word is found as

, it cannot properly he rendered otherwise in the Hebrew, or square letter, than by

:, or, anglice, shâbâch. The real word of the Greek text is

, or in proper conversion

:, or shâbâchthani, which does mean “glorify me,” and nothing else. Any change from this must and can be only by perversion, and by way of correction of the text of the New Testament. As used in the climacteric sentence of the whole symbolic fabricated drama, it was taken from the Mysteries, and never had any reality whatever. The matter has been referred to very learned Jews, and surprise has been expressed that in such a manifest difference between the indicated word and the correction adopted, no comment should exist of the fact of discrepancy, probably because it was thought best to slur, rather than lay the symbolic jugglery bare to the unthinking, ignorant herd.