16. It therefore stands to reason that God is a person and in this way is God manifest--not manifest from himself, but manifest in himself. The one who is manifest in himself is the God who is the source of all.

8674. 'And Jethro said, Blessed be Jehovah' means that the Lord is the source of all good. This is clear from the meaning of 'blessed be Jehovah' as the Lord's being the source of all good, dealt with in 1096, 1422, 3140, 'Jehovah' being the Lord, see above in 8671. The reason why 'blessed be Jehovah' means that the Lord is the source of all good is that the blessing which man receives holds within it all the good of eternal life, that is, the good of love to the Lord and towards the neighbour, 3406, 4981. Such good is what constitutes eternal life with a person.