Exodus 3:14 (WEB)
God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
Catechism · 3
I Believe in God
“God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." and he said, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you'. . . this is my name for ever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations."” — Catechism footnote: EX 3:13-15
The Way of Prayer
“But the one name that contains everything is the one that the Son of God received in his incarnation: JESUS. the divine name may not be spoken by human lips, but by assuming our humanity the Word of God hands it over to us and we can invoke it: "Jesus," "YHWH saves."” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Ex 3:14; 33: 19-23; Mt 1:21.
"And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord"
“In the Greek translation of the Old Testament, the ineffable Hebrew name YHWH, by which God revealed himself to Moses,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Ex 3:14.
Fathers and councils · 52
Augustine of Hippo
“Thereafter, too, He added this: “Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, He that is (Qui est) has sent me unto you.”” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14
Read the whole comment“And Thou criedst to me from afar, “Yea, verily, ‘I Am that I Am.’”” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14. Augustin, when in his De Civ. Dei (viii. 11, 12) he makes reference to this text, leans to the belief, from certain parallels between Plato’s…
Read the whole comment“For the Lord saith, “I Am that I Am,” and, “I Am hath sent me.”” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 14. [Irenæus, p. 419, vol. i. A.N.F.; also Tertull. p. 682, vol. iii. A.N.F.; same series elsewhere.—C.]
Read the whole comment“Again, the Lord saith to Moses, “I am That I am; and Thou shalt say to the children of Israel, I Am, hath sent me.”” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“To such a degree have I my own self almost ceased to “be, failing” as I am in my weakness, that He escaped from my memory, who said, “I AM HE THAT IS.”” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“…lords are named so not truly but by falsehood, for they rule but as servants, and compared with the true Lord are not lords; as it is said, I Am that I Am: as if those things which are made are not, compared with Him by whom they are made.” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“Whence the expression, I Am that I Am; and, I Am “hath sent me unto you;” and, “Thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed: but Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail.”” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“Then mentioning His own Name, He mercifully mingled in His grace towards men, saying, “I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; this is My Name for ever.”” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“But all these things, being earthly, fleeting, transitory, if they be compared to that Truth, where it is said, “I Am That I Am,” all this which passeth away is called “vanity.”” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“Why speak then of “before Abraham”? why, before Noe? why, before Adam?” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“But the same Scripture rarely employs those things which are spoken properly of God, and are not found in any creature; as, for instance, that which was said to Moses, “I am that I am;” and, “I Am hath sent me to you.”” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14
Read the whole comment“For that which He said to His servant Moses, “I am that I am; thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me to you;” this it is which we shall contemplate when we shall live in eternity.” — editor's note: Ex. iii 14
Read the whole comment“And who is there that is, more than He who said to His servant Moses, “I am that I am;” and, “Thus shall thou say unto the children of Israel, He who is hath sent me unto you?”” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14
Read the whole comment“For He is truly alone, because He is unchangeable; and declared this to be His own name to His servant Moses, when He says, “I am that I am;” and, “Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: He who is hath sent me unto you.”” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14
Read the whole comment“…go and deliver the Hebrew people out of Egypt, this answer was given: “I am who am; and thou shalt say to the children of Israel, He who is sent me unto you;” as though compared with Him that truly is, because He is unchangeable, those things which have been created mutable are not,—a truth which Plato zealously…” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“From the great impiety of this error we shall disentangle ourselves the more readily and easily, the more distinctly we understand that which God spoke by the angel when He sent Moses to the children of Israel: “I am that I am.”” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“This His name He spoke to His servant Moses: “I am that I am; and He that is hath sent me.”” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“The Lord therefore put aside what man could not comprehend, and added what he could; for He said also besides, “I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 13–15.
Read the whole comment“But God is that which is, and so has retained as His own peculiar name, “I am who am.”” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“Recall that, “I am who am,” and “He who is hath sent me,” and you will recognize the meaning of the words, “Then shall ye know that I am.”” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“…and to it therefore was it exclusively suited to say, “I Am That I Am,” and “Thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, He Who Is hath sent me unto you:” yet on account of the changeableness of the times amid which our mortal and changeable life is spent, there is nothing false in our saying, both it was, and…” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…be content not to deprive of real existence Him Who is, Who in the Divine appearance to Moses gave Himself the name of Existent, when He said, “I am that I am:” even as Eunomius in his later argument agrees with this, saying that it was He Who appeared to Moses.” — editor's note: Or “I am He that is,” Ex. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“For all things depend on Him Who is, nor can there be anything which has not its being in Him Who is.” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 14.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“And thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: He who is, hath sent me unto you;” and His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who makes those that believe in His name the sons of God.” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.1Discourse III
“Accordingly when the Father is called the only God, and we read that there is one God, and ‘I am,’ and ‘beside Me there is no God,’ and ‘I the first and I the last,’ this has a fit meaning.” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14; Deut. xxxii. 39, LXX.; Is. xliv. 6
Read the whole comment “And as there is one Beginning and therefore one God, so one is that Essence and Subsistence which indeed and truly and really is, and which said ‘I am that I am,’ and not two, that there be not two Beginnings; and from the One, a Son in nature and truth, is Its own Word, Its Wisdom, Its Power, and inseparable from It.” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 14.
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John Damascene
“It appears then that the most proper of all the names given to God is “He that is,” as He Himself said in answer to Moses on the mountain, Say to the sons of Israel, He that is hath sent Me.” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 14.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
“(Exod. 3:14) Recollect the words, I am that I am, and ye will know why I say, I am.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on John
“He trusts to their easily recognising a voice, which was so familiar to them, or, as is more probable, He shews that He was the same who said to Moses, I am that I am (Exod. 3:14)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on John
“Divinity has no past or future, but always the present; and therefore He does not say, Before Abraham was, I was: but, Before Abraham was, I am: (Exod. 3:14) as it is in Exodus, I am that I am.” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“That which the Lord spoke to His servant Moses, “I am that I am,” [Ex 3:14] this we shall contemplate when we shall live in eternity.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Whereas He says, “It is I,” without saying who, either they might be able to understand Him speaking through the darkness of night; or they might know that it was He who had spoken to Moses, “Say unto the children of Israel, He that is has sent me unto you.” [Ex 3:14]” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
“God moreover is He who says, “I am that I am;” [Ex 3:14] so that it is impossible that He should be called the God of those who are not.” — the author cites it
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Origen
“Now, in Him who truly exists, and who said by Moses, “I Am Who I Am,” all things, whatever they are, participate; which participation in God the Father is shared both by just men and sinners, by rational and irrational beings, and by all things universally which exist.” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14.
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Ambrose of Milan
“This is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, Who appeared to Moses in the bush, concerning Whom Moses saith, “He Who is hath sent me.”” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“How, then, is He God if He is changeable, seeing that He Himself hath said: “I am, I am, and I change not”?” — editor's note: St. Ambrose’ version differs in expression from the Vulg.—Ego enim Dominus et non mutor (Mal. iii. 6)—but not in substance, for Ego sum Dominus and “I am the…
Read the whole comment“And Christ always is, of Whom Moses says: “He that is hath sent me.”” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14.
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John Chrysostom
“When he asked what he was commanded to answer should the Jews enquire of him, “Who it was that had sent him,” he heard these words: “Say, I AM hath sent me.” ( Ex. iii. 14.)” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“Therefore also He says to Moses from the bush, “I am that I am,” and Moses says of Him, “I am hath sent me.”” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“The ten names are El, Elohim, Sabaôth, Eliôn, Asher yeheyeh (Ex. iii. 14), Adonai, Jah, the tetragram JHVH, and Shaddai.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““I am that I am,” God says; and if you compare all created things with Him they have no existence.” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14.
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Tertullian
“Even Moses, who had interrogated Him on that very point, had heard a different name.” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 13–16.
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John Cassian
“But to Moses He says, “I am that I am.”” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 14.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“While my mind was dwelling on these and on many like thoughts, I chanced upon the books which, according to the tradition of the Hebrew faith, were written by Moses and the prophets, and found in these words spoken by God the Creator testifying of Himself ‘I Am that I Am, and again, He that is hath sent me unto you.’” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“…that He alone abides eternally unborn, for it is written, I Am That I Am, and Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you, and through Jeremiah, O Lord, Who art Lord.” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“These are His words:—And the Lord said unto Moses, I Am that I Am; and He said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, He that is hath sent me unto you.” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“How can we think of God, Who is, being born, when being born implies the process of birth?” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“For according to the words spoken to Moses, He Who is, hath sent Me unto you, we obtain the unambiguous conception that absolute being belongs to God; since that which is, cannot be thought of or spoken of as not being.” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14 (in LXX.).
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…when He spake to Moses in the mount, and Moses asked what His Name was, this was what He called Himself, bidding him say to the people “I Am hath sent me,” but also because we find that this Name is the more strictly appropriate.” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 14.
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Aphrahat
“And He called His name Ahiyah ashar Ahiyah, El Shaddai and Adonai Sabaoth.” — editor's note: Gen. xvii. 1; Exod. iii. 14; Jer. xxxii. 18. The Hebrew has “Jehovah Sabaoth.”
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Clement of Alexandria
“Wherefore also the particle “Thou,” having a demonstrative emphasis, points out God, who alone truly is, “who was, and is, and is to come,” in which three divisions of time the one name (ὀ ὤν); “who is,” has its place.” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment““He who is,” says Moses, “sent me.”” — editor's note: “I AM,” A.V.: Ex. iii. 14.
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Cross-references · 69
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:23–33 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity I.1.
Cited together in Catechism §2666.
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Cited together in Against the Arians IV.1.
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Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.9.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.9.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity I.1.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 3.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 3.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14.
Cited together in Catechism §2666.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 14:22–33 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 14:22–33 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 14:22–33 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 14:22–33 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 14:22–33 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:23–33 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:23–33 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:23–33 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:23–33 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:23–33 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:23–33 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:23–33 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 22:23–33 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 25:46 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.20 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.20.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.20 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Bede on John 6:15–21 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on John 6:15–21 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on John 6:15–21 (3) (Catena Aurea).
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Cited together in Bede on John 6:15–21 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on John 6:15–21 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on John 6:15–21 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.20.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 8:28–30 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory the Great on John 8:57–59 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory the Great on John 8:57–59 (2) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Gregory the Great on John 8:57–59 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Against the Arians IV.1.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 25:46 (3) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.20.
Cited together in Catechism §2666.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Catechism §2666.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity I.1.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity I.1.
Cited together in Catechism §446.
Cited together in Against the Arians IV.1.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Catechism §2666.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 3.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Confessions VII.10.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 25:46 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 3.
Cited together in The City of God VIII.11.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity I.1.
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