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And he puts these words into the mouth of Christ Jesus: That which lives in me, of which there is a spark in every human personality, existed before the Gospel. — The significant sentence in the Gospel of John was: “Before Abraham was, I am.” — Before there was an Abraham, there was the “I am,” the I am that is not bound to time, that was before Abraham, that was already there in the spiritual origins of man. In having to describe himself as the original source of the I am, Christ spoke the significant words: Before Abraham was, the I am was.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Bible and Wisdom II","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-11-14","location":null,"word_count":206,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-11-14/p033","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19081114p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1908-11-14/p033"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-11-14/p033","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Und dem Christus Jesus legt er in den Mund: Das, was in mir lebt, von dem ein Funke in jeder menschlichen Persönlichkeit ist, das war,ehe das Evangelium war. — Der bedeutsame Satz in dem Johannes-Evangelium war: «Ehe denn Abraham war, bin ich.» — Bevor ein Abraham war, war das «Ich-bin», das Ich-bin, das nicht an eine Zeit gebunden ist, das vor Abraham war, das da war schon in den geistigen Urgründen des Menschen. Indem er sich selber als den Urquell des Ich-bin bezeichnen mußte, sprach der Christus das bedeutsame Wort: Ehe Abraham war, war das Ich-bin.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1908-11-14/p033"}],"english":["GA 57/1908-11-14/p033"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":200,"en_words":206,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8142,"original_word_count":8014,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19081114p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 57/1908-11-14/p033"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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