Second, Jeremiah 23:6: “He will call Him.”
Second, Jeremiah 23:6: “He will call Him.”
§ 329. (II) “Jeremiah 23:6 reads in the Hebrew ‘he will call Him’ in the singular, though it is to be read ‘they will call Him’ in the plural.” We respond. (1) Jerome attests that even at his time it was read 
in the singular. The Septuagint translators render it 
. Therefore already at the time of Jerome and, in fact, at the time of the Septuagint translators, the Hebrew text would have been corrupted, something that those do not concede who accuse the Hebrew sources of corruption but who claim that the Septuagint translators prepared their translation from a Hebrew text as yet uncorrupted.
(2) Vatablus, Pagninus, and Arias Montanus, who were highly skilled in the Hebrew language, say that it can be translated in the plural, “they will call,” just as the ancient Latin translator rendered 
as “they will call.”
(3) They nevertheless did not think that there was any corruption because here, too, an active verb of the third person is taken impersonally: “he will call Him,” that is, each person in the Church or all the devout in the Church will call Him “Jehovah.”
(4) In fact, the preceding noun 
[“Israel”] must again be taken in common in a collective sense: “In His days Judah will be saved and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name (the name of David’s branch), which it (Judah and Israel) will call Him: ‘The Lord our Righteousness.’ “Nothing is taken away from this explanation through a translation in the plural, because a plural verb is quite often joined with a collective noun.
(5) Many of the rabbinic scholars, older as well as more recent, have kept the singular reading and apply 
to the noun Messiah, as Helvicus shows (vol. 4, Disp. Gissens., disp. 5, § 9). It is not likely, therefore, that the Jews corrupted the text lest they be compelled to acknowledge that the name Jehovah was attributed to the Messiah.