Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.
⛓ 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.
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A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers' (v. 13) reproduces the patriarchal covenant formula of the burning bush, anchoring the resurrection proclamation in the God who self-identifies to Moses.
High confidence'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob' is a verbatim citation; 'Moses trembled, and dared not look' reproduces 'Moses hid his face.'
High confidenceJesus' clinching proof: 'Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' Verbatim LXX quotation with the bush setting named, highest volume, the keystone of the resurrection argument ('not of the dead but of the living').
High confidenceJesus' decisive proof of resurrection is the formal quotation of God's self-identification at the bush: 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' He explicitly cites 'the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush,' and argues God is God of the living, not the dead. This is the pericope's load-bearing citation.
High confidenceJesus' clinching scriptural proof, formula-cited ('that which was spoken to you by God'): 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob' (22:32) — verbatim from God at the bush; Jesus argues the patriarchs live to God.
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