Rabbi Aaron Lichtenstein says that nn quotes Rabbi Elijah Benamozegh on Maimonides' disinction. In an attempt at making to make this distinction comprehensible, Elie Rabbi Benamozegh writes:
:From the universal view of primitive monotheism that Judaism holds, we know that it was the different appellations of the unique G-d which engendered the different religions. Little by little, the variety and multiplicity of divine names caused men to believe that these words - which originally expressed but differing attributes of the single G-d - represented each a distinct, independent personage, as happened later in Christianity when the councils defined the Trinity. The Jewish doctrine, while proclaiming all these transcriptions of G-d's name legitimate, returns humanity to its beginnings; beneath the divers religions, which it respects but among which it sustains so much antagonism, it reclaims the fundamental unity. And nothing is more characteristic in this regard than the law on blasphemy, which forbids the Gentile to blaspheme not only the names of the G-d of Israel but also the names of the many pagan divinities, from which names Judaism teaches its faithful to find fragments of & divine truth.<ref>Benamozegh, Israel et L'Hurnanite, page 684</reF>
