CALL

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 pa age 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 a emblies. In both the Old and New Testament, to call upon the name of the Lord, imports invoking the true God in prayer, with a confe ion that he is Jehovah, that is, with an acknowledgment of his e ential and incommunicable attributes. In this view the phrase is applied to the worship of Christ.