Ham (son of Noah) son had done unto him. And he said, And he said, —Revised Version Ham was "blessed" in – Noah did not curse him directly, instead cursing his son Canaan. The Talmud deduces two possible explanations, one attributed to Rab and one to Rabbi Samuel, for what Ham did to Noah to warrant the curse. According to Rab, Ham castrated Noah on the basis that, since Noah cursed Ham by his fourth son Canaan, Ham must have injured Noah with respect to a fourth son. Emasculating him thus deprived Noah of the possibility of a fourth son. According to Samuel, Ham
Sacred Name Bible or using the four Greek letters "PIPI" (Π Ι Π Ι) that physically imitate the appearance of Hebrew יהוה, "YHWH"), and that "Kyrios" was a Christian introduction. Bible scholars and translators such as Eusebius and Jerome (translator of the "Latin Vulgate") consulted the Hexapla, but did not attempt to preserve sacred names in Semitic forms. Justin Martyr (second century) argued that YHWH is not a personal name, writing of the "namelessness of God". George Lamsa, the translator of The Holy Bible from Ancient Eastern Manuscripts: Containing the Old and New Testaments (1957) believed the New Testament was originally written in