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Exodus 6:3Exod.6.3

And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.

KJV

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Je suis apparu à Abraham, à Isaac et à Jacob, comme le Dieu tout-puissant; mais je n'ai pas été connu d'eux sous mon nom, l'Eternel.

KJV

And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.

Patristic reading

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  • Philo Judaeus

    De Mutatione Nominum

    αὐτοῖς. „πρὸς Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ἰακὼβ θεὸς ὢν αὐτῶν, καὶ τὸ ὄνομά μου κύριον οὐκ ἐδήλωσα αὐτοῖς“ (Exod. 6,3). τοῦ γὰρ ὑπερβατοῦ μετατεθέντος ἑξῆς ἂν τοιοῦτος εἴη λόγος· „ὄνομά μου τὸ κύριον οὐκ ἐδήλωσα αὐτοῖς“, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἐν καταχρήσει διὰ τὰς εἰρημένας αἰτίας. οὕτω μέντοι τὸ ὂν…
  • Philo Judaeus

    De Somniis (lib. i-ii)

    λογῆσαι. καὶ γὰρ ἐν ἑτέροις σκεψάμενος, εἰ ἔστι τι τοῦ ὄντος ὄνομα, σαφῶς ἔγνω ὅτι κύριον μὲν οὐδέν (Exod. 6, 3), ὃ δ’ ἂν εἴπῃ τις, καταχρώμενος ἐρεῖ· λέγεσθαι γὰρ οὐ πέφυκεν, ἀλλὰ μόνον εἶναι τὸ ὄν. μαρτυρεῖ δὲ καὶ τὸ θεσπισθὲν λόγιον τῷ πυνθανομένῳ, εἰ ἔστιν ὄνομα αὐτῷ, ὅτι „ἐγ…
  • Hippolytus

    Refutatio Omnium Haeresium (= Philosophumena)

    Gen. 2 — 9 Gen. 4 (Iren. I 7, 5 S.64f Η.; Clem. Exe. 54, 1 S. 124, 27 ff St.) — 10 Gen. 6, 1 — 10 f Exod. 6, 3 — 11 Gen. 1, 5—13, vgl. VI 14, 2—13 Gen. 2, 16. 17 (am Schluß οὐ φάγεσθε) — 15 Gen. 12, 1 — 18 Exod. 20, 13—15; Deut. 5, 17 — 22 θεολόγων] s. Krolls Index zu Proklos In…

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