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Moses and Joshua in the Tabernacle, James Tissot

Exodus 3:5

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Exodus 3:5 (WEB)

He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”

Catechism · 3

I Believe in God

  • §208Paragraph 1 · I Believe in GodRead at vatican.va

    “Before the burning bush, Moses takes off his sandals and veils his face in the presence of God's holiness.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. EX 3:5-6

In the Old Testament

  • §2575Article 1 · In the Old TestamentRead at vatican.va

    “From the midst of the burning bush he calls Moses.” — Catechism footnote: Ex 3:1-10.

"Our Father Who Art in Heaven"

  • §2777Article 2 · "Our Father Who Art in Heaven"Read at vatican.va

    “From the burning bush Moses heard a voice saying to him, "Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground."” — Catechism footnote: Ex 3:5.

Fathers and councils · 14

Jerome

  • “This is that Moses who when he saw a great vision and heard an angel, or the Lord speaking in the bush, could not by any means approach to him without first loosing the latchet of his shoe, that is, putting off the bonds of marriage.” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 5.

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  • “Similarly, when Moses and Joshua were bidden to remove their shoes because the ground on which they stood was holy, the command had a mystical meaning.” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 5; Josh. v. 15.

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Athanasius of Alexandria

  • “…out of the bush, and the Lord called Moses out of the bush, saying, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob,’ yet was not the Angel the God of Abraham, but in the Angel God spoke.” — editor's note: Vid. Ex. iii. 2–6.

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Catena Aurea on Luke

  • Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke

    “(Exod. 3:5) But if any one is perplexed why in Egypt we are ordered to eat the lamb with shoes on, (Exod. 12:11.) but the Apostles are appointed to preach the Gospel without shoes: he must consider, that one in Egypt ought still to beware of the serpent’s bite, for there were many poisonous creatures in Egypt.” — the author cites it

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Eusebius of Caesarea

Ambrose of Milan

Augustine of Hippo

Hilary of Poitiers

Gregory of Nazianzus

  • “XIX. And as to shoes, let him who is about to touch the Holy Land which the feet of God have trodden, put them off, as Moses did upon the Mount, that he may bring there nothing dead; nothing to come between Man and God.” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 5.

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John Cassian

  • “…in the letter that which was said to Moses and to Joshua, the son of Nun: “Loose the latchet of thy shoe: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.”” — editor's note: Exod. iii. 5; Josh. v. 16.

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Cyprian of Carthage

Cross-references · 23

Cited together with

  • Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 10:3–4 (4) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in The Institutes I.9.

  • Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.11.

  • Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.11.

  • Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.11.

  • Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.11.

  • Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.11.

  • Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.11.

  • Cited together in Catechism §208.

  • Cited together in The Institutes I.9.

  • Cited together in Catechism §208.

  • Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.11.

  • Cited together in Catechism §208.

  • Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 10:3–4 (4) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Catechism §2777.

  • Cited together in Catechism §2777.

  • Cited together in Catechism §2777.

  • Cited together in Catechism §208.

  • Cited together in Catechism §208.

  • Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.11.

  • Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.11.

  • Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.

Quoted in

  • Acts 7:33 takes up the words of Exodus 3:5 (7 words in common).

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