manifestation of God is a theophany, which overwhelms a person, as it does Isaiah. In Hebrew to express a superlative idea, a twofold repetition of a word is used, like king of kings, lord of lords, and holy of holies, that is, “holiest.” Here, however, there is a threefold occurrence of “holy” acting as a “super superlative” used here for the first time in Scripture to denote Yahweh’s glorious unique, holy quality;46 God is, as it were, the “most holiest!” The threefold use of holy only occurs again