points to God’s role as the Creator of all things. • Jesus lays claim to divinity when he utters the name “I AM” as his own name in the fourth Gospel (Jn 8:58; 13:19; 18:6). • God names himself “is” when he speaks to Moses on the mountain, for he is a limitless ocean of being who, neither starting nor stopping, transcends every notion of time and nature (St. Gregory Nazianzen, Orations 38) (CCC 203–13). 3:15 LORD: Translates the Hebrew YHWH, called the tetragrammaton, the original pronunciation of
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