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.’” God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
⛓ Read Exodus 3 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The name which is above every name' evokes the divine Name revealed to Moses, the ineffable Tetragrammaton/'I AM,' which bowing and confession honor. Coherence is high since the bestowed 'name' that draws universal worship is best read as the divine Name (kyrios = YHWH), though Exodus is not verbally cited, so confidence is medium and the precise referent is debated.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The divine name 'I AM' lies behind Rev's 'the one who is and who was' (ho on kai ho en); LXX ho on at Exod 3:14 is the verbal root of Rev's tripartite name (here truncated as the kingdom now is, dropping 'who is to come'). Thematic/onomastic.
Medium confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
'I revealed your name to the people' (v6) figures Jesus' mission as the disclosure of the divine Name first given at the bush, where God names himself I AM and 'this is my name forever.' John's recurrent egō eimi sayings make this Name-revelation channel highly coherent and recurrent.
Medium confidence