By the first centuries of our Common Era, Jewish public readers had evidently been instructed, not to read God’s name as it appeared in their Holy Scriptures, but to substitute the word ʼAdho·naiʹ, meaning “Lord. ”
در چنین شرایطی ،‏ مردم متأسفانه نمی‌توانستند از رابطه‌ای گرم و صمیمی با خدای خود برخوردار شوند .‏