“And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,”
And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming: the Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. The divine self-disclosure is the most complete and most repeated description of God's character in the Hebrew Bible. Compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness — five character qualities defining the covenant God's disposition toward His people. This formula is quoted or echoed in Nehemiah 9:17, Psalm 86:15, Joel 2:13, Jonah 4:2, and Nahum 1:3. The character of God proclaimed in Exodus 34:6 is the theological foundation of every subsequent prophetic appeal to divine mercy in the entire Hebrew canon.
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