Exodus 34:5

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

  “Then the LORD passes before Moses and proclaims, "YHWH, YHWH, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness"; Moses then confesses that the LORD is a forgiving God.” — Catechism footnote: Ex 34:5-6; cf. 34:9

Cyril of Jerusalem

• Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 11

  “And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, both keeping righteousness and shewing mercy unto thousands, taking away iniquities, and transgressions, and sins.” — editor's note: Ex. xxxiv. 5–7. For “keeping righteousness and shewing mercy,” the Hebrew has only “keeping mercy.”

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, On Fasting Chapter 6

  “…though fatter than he, could not constantly contemplate even Moses himself, fed as he had been upon God, nor his leanness, sated as it had been with His glory!” — editor's note: See Ex. xxxiii. 18, 19, with xxxiv. 4–9, 29–35.

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• Exodus 33:12

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• Exodus 33:13

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• Exodus 33:14

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• Exodus 33:15

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• Exodus 33:16

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• Exodus 33:17

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• Exodus 33:18

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• Exodus 33:19

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