Understanding the Office of Peter, by Dominic V. Cassella

Dominic V. Cassella is a husband, father, and doctoral student at the Catholic University of America. Mr. Cassella is also Editorial and Online Assistant at The Catholic Thing.

In the Gospel of John, our Lord is recorded as saying “I AM,” the Greek “ego eimi,” over forty times. The phrase should call to mind for the reader the episode in Exodus 3:14, when Moses encounters God and the burning bush. Moses asks for the name of God and the voice returns: “I AM.”

St. Hilary of Poitiers tells us in his treatise of the Trinity that when he was a pagan and came across these words from Exodus, he knew – because of his philosophical training – that the speaker of these words must be the one and only, true God.

However, not all of the “I AM” statements are without qualification. Among these forty or so “I AM” statements in the Gospel of John, seven are attached to a predicate: “I am the bread of life” (6:35), “I am the light of the world” (8:12), “I am the door” (10:9), “I am the good shepherd” (10:11), “I am the resurrection and the life” (11:25), “I am the way, and the truth, and the life” (14:6), and “I am the true vine” (15:1)….

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In the Gospel of John, our Lord is recorded as saying “I AM,” the Greek “ego eimi,” over forty times. The phrase should call to mind for the reader the episode in Exodus 3:14, when Moses encounters God and the burning bush. Moses asks for the name of God and the voice returns: “I AM.”

St. Hilary of Poitiers tells us in his treatise of the Trinity that when he was a pagan and came across these words from Exodus, he knew – because of his philosophical training – that the speaker of these words must be the one and only, true God.

Understanding the Office of Peter, by Dominic V. Cassella

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By Dominic V. Cassella, The Catholic Thing, July 5, 2025

In the Gospel of John, our Lord is recorded as saying “I AM,” the Greek “ego eimi,” over forty times. The phrase should call to mind for the reader the episode in Exodus 3:14, when Moses encounters God and the burning bush. Moses asks for the name of God and the voice returns: “I AM.”

St. Hilary of Poitiers tells us in his treatise of the Trinity that when he was a pagan and came across these words from Exodus, he knew – because of his philosophical training – that the speaker of these words must be the one and only, true God.

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