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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Elohim |
 | | It is a plural form, but "The usage of the language gives no support to the supposition that we have in the plural form Elohim, applied to the God of Israel, the remains of an early polytheism, or at least a combination with the higher spiritual beings" (Kautzsch). |
 | | Gen., xxi, 42, 53, where God is called "the fear of Isaac", Is., viii, 13, and Ps. |
 | | Instead of the rendering "judges" he suggests the translation "God", as witness of a lawsuit, as giver of decisions on points of law, or as dispenser of oracles; for the rendering "angels" he substitutes "the gods of the heathen", which, in later post-exilic times, fell to a lower rank. |
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