Judges 13:18 (WEB)
The LORD’s angel said to him, “Why do you ask about my name, since it is incomprehensible?”
Catechism · 1
“It is at once a name revealed and something like the refusal of a name, and hence it better expresses God as what he is - infinitely above everything that we can understand or say: he is the "hidden God", his name is ineffable, and he is the God who makes himself close to men.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Is 45:15; Judg 13:18
Fathers and councils · 3
Gregory of Nyssa
“It also is wonderful”; so that by this we learn that there is one name significant of the Divine Nature—the wonder, namely, that arises unspeakably in our hearts concerning It.” — editor's note: Cf. Judges xiii. 18 (LXX.).
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John Cassian
“So then the same prophet says elsewhere: “For unto us a Son is born: unto us a child is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called the angel of great counsel, God the mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of peace.”” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6 where in the LXX. B reads ὅτι παιδίον ἑγεννήθη ἡμῖν, ὑιὸς καὶ ἐδόθη ἡμῖν, οὗ ἡ ἀρχὴ ἐγενήθη ἐπὶ τοὺ ὤμου αὐτοῦ, καὶ καλεῖται τὸ ὄνομα αῦτοῦ Μεγάλης…
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Aphrahat
“The Moabites ruled over them in the days of Ehud; the Ammonites in the days of Jephthah; the Philistines in the days of Samson, and also in the days of Eli and of Samuel the Prophet; the Edomites in the days of Ahab; the Assyrians in the days of Hezekiah.” — editor's note: Judges xiii. 1–24.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.1.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.1.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius II.3.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius II.3.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius II.3.
Cited together in Catechism §206.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius II.3.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.1.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.1.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.1.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.1.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.1.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.1.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.1.