Literatura do Segundo Templo sobre Êxodo 3:14

[11] It is a logical consequence that no personal name even can be properly assigned to the truly Existent. Note that when the prophet desires to know what he must answer to those who ask about His name He says “I am He that IS” (Ex 3:14), which is equivalent to “My nature is to be, not to be spoken.”

[231] Testimony to this is afforded also by the divine response made to Moses’ question whether He has a name, even “I am He that is” (Ex. 3:14). It was given in order that, since there are not in God things which man can comprehend, man may recognize His subsistence.

Of this tent he says that it has received the title of “Tent of Testimony,” using his words quite advisedly, to show that the Tent of the Existent One really IS, and does not merely receive the title. For, among the virtues, that of God really IS, actually existing, inasmuch as God alone has veritable being. This is why Moses will say of Him as best he may in human speech, “I AM He that IS” (Exod. 3:14), implying that others lesser than He have not being, as being indeed is, but exist in semblance only, and are conventionally said to exist. To Moses’ Tent, however, which figuratively represents human virtue, must be accorded not existence but only a title, seeing that it is a copy and likeness of that divine virtue. It follows as a consequence of this that, when Moses is appointed “a god unto Pharaoh,” he did not become such in reality, but only by a convention is supposed to be such; for I do indeed know God as granting favours and giving,