practical sense.

The reproductive energy in man had become deified. It had, in
other words, come to possess all the attributes of a god, or of a
powerful man, which in reality was the same thing. It is this
god personified which is represented as appearing to Abraham and
talking with him face to face. With this same god Jacob
wrestled, while the real God--the dual or triune principle, the
Jehovah or Iav, no man could behold and live.

To conceal the fact that the God of Abraham originally consisted
of a dual or triple unity, and that the Deity was identical in
significance with that of contemporary peoples, the priests have,
as usual, had recourse to a trick to deceive the ignorant or
uninitiated. In reference to this subject Godfrey Higgins says:

"In the second book of Genesis the creation is described not to
have been made by Aleim, or the Aleim, but by a God of a double
name Ieue Aleim; which the priests have translated Lord God. By
using the word Lord, their object evidently is to conceal from
their readers several difficulties which afterward arise
respecting the names of God and this word, and which show clearly
that the books of the Pentateuch are the writings of different
persons."[39]

[39] Anacalypsis, book ii., ch, i.


Upon this subject Bishop Colenso observes: