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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.’”
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Verse 14. I am who am. That is, I am being itself, eternal, self-existent, independent, infinite; without beginning, end, or change; and the source of all other beings. Challoner.—Hebrew agrees with the Vulg. though it seems to read aeje, “I shall be,” and so forth A. Lapide, and so forth—No name can fully explain the divine perfections. As God is alone, he stands in need of no distinctive appellation, as Lactantius, and even the pagans have confessed. Orig. c. Cels. vi. Calmet.—All other beings are just nothing, compared with God. He alone is self-existent and infinitely perfect. Worthington.
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