the greeks knew of the most high great spirit but had their own pronunciation for the tetragrammaton  > the name . > diodorus siculus, when enumerating the different legislators of antiquity, says, "amongst the jews moses pretended that the god surnamed iao gave him his laws" (i. 94). and this is elucidated by the remark of clemens alexandrinus, that the hebrew tetragrammaton, or mystic name, is pronounced , and signifies "he that is and shall be." theodoret states that the same four letters were pronounced by the samaritans as  (jave); by the jews as
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