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The Catholic ThingUnderstanding the Office of PeterBy Dominic V. Cassella
In the Gospel of John, our Lord is recorded as saying "I AM," the Greek "ego eimi," over forty times. The phrase should call to mind for the reader the episode in Exodus 3:14, when Moses encounters God and the burning bush. Moses asks for the name of God and the voice returns: "I AM."
St. Hilary of Poitiers tells us in his treatise of the Trinity that when he was a pagan and came across these words from Exodus, he knew - because of his philosophical training - that the speaker of these words...2025-07-0506 min