‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.
God adorns Himself with titles we can grasp because our minds vanish away if we ascend toward His infinite majesty; He names Himself the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to call us back to His word and the covenant He made with them, so Moses hears not something novel but the faithfulness promised long ago, and his hope for redemption stands on the old promise.
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After forty years buried in obscurity, Moses, now eighty and seemingly past service, enters his calling through a vision in the wilderness. This teaches that God confines Himself to no place; He met Moses in a remote desert as readily as in a temple. The bush burning unconsumed prefigures Israel in Egypt's furnace, afflicted yet unbroken, and perhaps foreshadows Christ: divinity manifest in flesh.
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Commenting on Acts 7:30-41
God identifies Himself by the covenant He made with the fathers and the promise to bring Israel out of bondage into Canaan; Moses trembled because he stood before the God not of the dead but of the living, whose word stands unchanging from Abraham to this moment.
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