It appears then Rendered in the Septuagint Version, ᾽Εγώ εἰμι ὁ ὤν. Some of the Fathers made much of the fact that it is not the neuter form τὸ ὄν. that the most proper of all the names given to God is “He that is,” as He Himself said in answer to Moses on the mountain, Say to the sons of Israel, He that is hath sent Me Exod. iii. 14.. For He keeps all being in His own embrace Greg. Naz., Orat. 36., like a sea of essence infinite and unseen. Or as the holy Dionysius says, “He that is good Dionys., De div. nom. c. 2, 3 and 4. This sentence and the next are absent in some mss., and are rather more obscurely stated than is usual with John of Damascus..” For one cannot say of God that He has being in the first place and goodness in the second.