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.
Allusion5
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Paul confesses he serves 'the God of our fathers' (ho theos ton pateron), the covenant self-designation given at the burning bush, 'the God of your fathers... my memorial to all generations.' High thematic coherence and recurrent formula; standard Septuagintal idiom Paul deliberately claims to assert continuity, not novelty.
High confidenceThe expanded title 'the God of our fathers' as the LORD's memorial name reinforces the Exodus 3 self-disclosure; v. 15 supplies the 'God of your fathers... my name for ever' phrasing behind Peter's formula.
Medium confidence'The God of our fathers' (v. 30) is the self-designation revealed to Moses at the bush, anchoring the apostolic proclamation in the covenant identity of Israel's God.
Medium confidenceAnanias' 'The God of our fathers has appointed you' (v14) deploys the patriarchal covenant title fixed at the burning bush ('the God of your fathers... my name forever'), grounding Paul's commission in Israel's God. Verbal formula and thematic coherence.
Medium confidenceThe same divine self-naming as 'the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob' is repeated and declared God's everlasting memorial name — reinforces the citation in 22:32.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'the law of our fathers' (v3), anticipating 'the God of our fathers' in v14, draws on the patriarchal-covenant formula whose anchor is Exodus 3:15. Faint here; the formula lands more fully in the Ananias speech.
Low confidence