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A contemporary, foundational statement of classic reformed faith, now revised and updated • Comprehensive, coherent, contextual, and conversational • Scripture-saturated, with more exegesis and more Scripture quotations than other one-volume theologies • Upholds classic Calvinist positions on baptism, the Trinity, church government, and much more • Interacts with contemporary issues...

Tetragram (יהוה, yhwh), the word for “name” in the singular (שֵׁם, s̊ēm) was occasionally employed as a sufficient representation in itself of his titles and name, as in Leviticus 24:11: “The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name” (see also Exod. 20:7; Ps. 76:2). “In such cases ‘the name’ stands for the whole manifestation of God in His relation to His people, or simply for the person, so that it becomes synonymous with God.”17