Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Isa 45, 15 Truly with you God is hidden

(Isa 45, 15) Truly with you God is hidden

[15] Truly with you God is hidden, the God of Israel, the savior!

(CCC 206) In revealing his mysterious name, YHWH ("I AM HE WHO IS", "I AM WHO AM" or "I AM WHO I AM"), God says who he is and by what name he is to be called. This divine name is mysterious just as God is mystery. It is at once a name revealed and something like the refusal of a name, and hence it better expresses God as what he is - infinitely above everything that we can understand or say: he is the "hidden God", his name is ineffable, and he is the God who makes himself close to men (Cf. Isa 45:15; Judg 13:18).

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