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Moses and Joshua in the Tabernacle, James Tissot

Exodus 33:12

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Exodus 33:12 (WEB)

Moses said to the LORD, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’

Catechism · 1

  • §210Paragraph 1 · I Believe in GodRead at vatican.va

    “After Israel's sin, when the people had turned away from God to worship the golden calf, God hears Moses' prayer of intercession and agrees to walk in the midst of an unfaithful people, thus demonstrating his love.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Ex 32; 33: 12-17

Fathers and councils · 2

Augustine of Hippo

Gregory of Nyssa

  • “…with anything, but of the disposition towards what is agreeable,—as “the Lord knoweth them that are His”; and He says to Moses, “I knew thee above all”; while of those condemned in their wickedness He Who knows all things says, “I never knew you.”” — editor's note: Ex. xxxiii. 12 (LXX.).

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