MASORETIC • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Masoretic

... inspired, and three years later the Calvinists of Geneva, by a special canon, forbade that any minister should be received into their jurisdiction until he publicly confessed that the Hebrew text, as it to-day exists in the Masoretic copies, is, both as to the consonants and vowel points, divine ...

— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White

... centuries the Hebrews have been forbidden to pronounce the Sacred Name; that wherever it occurs, they have for ages read the word Adonaï instead; and that under it, when the masoretic points, which represent the vowels, came to be used, they placed those which belonged to the latter word. The possession of the true pronunciation was deemed to confer on him who had it extraordinary and supernatural powers; and the Word ...

— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike