to name a person or thing, Acts xi, 26; Rom. vii, 3. 2. To cry to
another for help; and hence, to pray. The first passage in the Old
Testament in which we meet with this phrase, is Gen. iv, 26, where we
read, “Then began men to call on the name of the Lord,” or Jehovah; the
meaning of which seems to be, that they then first began to worship him
in public assemblies. In both the Old and New Testament, to call upon
the name of the Lord, imports invoking the true God in prayer, with a
confession that he is Jehovah, that is, with an acknowledgment of his
essential and incommunicable attributes. In this view the phrase is
applied to the worship of Christ.
another for help; and hence, to pray. The first passage in the Old
Testament in which we meet with this phrase, is Gen. iv, 26, where we
read, “Then began men to call on the name of the Lord,” or Jehovah; the
meaning of which seems to be, that they then first began to worship him
in public assemblies. In both the Old and New Testament, to call upon
the name of the Lord, imports invoking the true God in prayer, with a
confession that he is Jehovah, that is, with an acknowledgment of his
essential and incommunicable attributes. In this view the phrase is
applied to the worship of Christ.