Note 2 — INTRODUCTION.

The principal Hebrew equivalents for the modern term “Religion,” ‏תורה‎ and ‏אמונה‎, confirm this view. In the Bible ‏תורה‎ signifies “instruction,” and is applied to the teaching of religions truth, as well as to that of religious precepts. The same is the case with the second term ‏אמונה‎ which signifies “firmness,” “perseverance,” or “permanence,” and is used of “consistency” in faith as well as of conscientiousness in the practice of the Divine ordinances.2