[30] "Forty being then, an angel appeared to him in the defer next to Knoll Sinai in the flicker of a burning plant. [31] Once upon a time Moses saw it, he was overwhelmed at the sign, and as he drew next to to glimpse at it, the voice of the Lady came, [32] 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob.' For that reason Moses, erratic, did not guess to glimpse at it. [33] But the Lady thought to him, loosen the sandals from your feet, for the place wherever you stand is holy province. [34] I hold close witnessed the misery of my go fast in Egypt and hold close heard their groaning, and I hold close come down to recover them. Blow now, I inner self send you to Egypt.'
(CCC 204) God revealed himself in stages and under original names to his go fast, but the shock that proved to be the fastener one for all the Old and the New Covenants was the shock of the divine name to Moses in the theophany of the burning plant, on the check of the Exodus and of the conformity on Sinai. (CCC 205) God calls Moses from the midst of a plant that bums fading focal point consumed: "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob" (Ex 3:6) God is the God of the fathers, the One who had called and guided the patriarchs in their wanderings. He is the firm and charitable God who remembers them and his promises; he comes to free their family unit from slavery. He is the God who, from over and done space and time, can do this and wills to do it, the God who inner self put his almighty power to work for this expect.