concept
God Sabaoth
also: бог Саваоф
'Sabaoth' (from Hebrew 'hosts') is an Old Testament epithet for God as commander of heavenly armies; Ivan Nikitich invokes it in a mock-solemn oath typical of his pompous speech.
Reading notes
- The Correspondent §43 God Sabaoth
'Lord of Hosts' (Savaof), a Church Slavonic honorific for God drawn from the Old Testament -- Ivan Nikitich invokes it with mock-solemn bathos to underscore how much he supposedly suffered for his writing.