Question Box - Good News Staff - August 1972

Good News Staff

Question: Should a minister be called "Reverend"? Answer: In Psalm 111:9 we read: "... He [God] hath commanded his covenant forever: holy and REVEREND is His name." Other translations of this verse describe God's name as "glorious," "awesome," "inspiring awe," "majestic" and "terrible." The Jewish Publication Society translation renders it: "Holy and awful [that is, full of awe, worthy of worship] is his name." According to A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, by Brown, Driver and Briggs, the original Hebrew word which is translated "reverend" means to "inspire reverence, godly fear and awe: as an attribute of God... (the) great and awful (God)...." - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library