Isaiah 43:3 and 43:11 taken word by word with the divine name restored, which produces a sentence no translation prints. I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior; I, I am the Lord, and beside me there is no savior. The word translated Lord is the same I AM; the next words, your God, are your I AM. So it reads: I am the I am that is your I am - that is what it literally means - your savior, and you have no other savior but your own wonderful I am. Neville uses the substitution to close off every external addressee: you can call him Lord, God, Jehovah, Jesus, anything in the world, but when you use those names you are speaking of another, and when you say I am it is first person, singular. He supports it from Exodus 3:14-16 - go and tell them I AM has sent you, this is my name forever, for all generations - and notes that the children of Israel found the present tense impossible and addressed him as Thou art, which is not his name at all. About nine lectures. Keep it beside M817, which carries the no-other-savior claim; this motif carries the substitution that produces it.
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Isaiah 43:3, 11 | I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, your savior. I, I am the Lord; and besides me there is no savior
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I am the I am that is your I am
They addressed him as “Thou art.” That’s not his name at all
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LectureThe Holy One
the word translated Lord is the same “I am”—“I am the I am.” Now the next word is “your God,” that is, “your I am.” I am the I am that is your I am—that’s what literally it means.
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LectureThe Holy One
The children of Israel found it very difficult to believe in the present tense. They addressed him as “Thou art.” That’s not his name at all. They speak of God, “he is.” That’s not his name.
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