Neville explains that ancient biblical manuscripts had no punctuation, verses, paragraphs, or chapters — these were only introduced around the 16th century — and uses this to reinterpret a famous statement of Jesus. Rather than 'Before Abraham was, I am,' with the traditional comma placed after 'was' (implying a man claiming to precede Abraham), he proposes reading it 'Before Abraham, was I am,' revealing 'I AM' as the impersonal, universal source of being speaking through everyone rather than a historical claim by an individual man.