Alpha And Omega
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ALPHA AND OMEGA.A title of God in Rev_1:8; Rev_21:6, of Jesus in Rev_22:13 [its presence in Rev_1:11 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] is not Justified by the MSS]. Alpha was the first, and Omega the last letter of the Greek, as Aleph and Taw were the first and the last of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Talmud, From Aleph to Taw meant From first to last, including all between. Cf. Shabb. 51. 1 (on Eze_9:6): Do not read My Sanctuary, but My saints, who are the sons of men who have kept the whole Law from Aleph to Taw.
This explains the title. In each instance St. John defines It. Rev_1:8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] the beginning and the ending is an interpolation from Rev_21:6, Rev_22:13), i.e. the Eternal, the Contemporary of every generation. Rev_21:6 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end; Rev_22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last (cf. Isa_44:6; Isa_48:12), the beginning and the end, i.e. He who comprehends and embraces all things, from whom all come and to whom all return, the fons et clausula, the starting-point and the goal of history (cf. Col_1:17). The ascription of this title to Jesus as well as to God in a writing so early as the Apocalypse strikingly attests the view of our Lords Person which prevailed in the primitive Church.
Aurelius Prudentius makes fine use of the title in his hymn on The Lords Nativity (Corde natus ex parentis), thus rendered by Neale:
Of the Fathers love begotten
Ere the worlds began to be,
He is Alpha and Omega,
He the source, the ending He,
Of the things that are, that have been,
And that future years shall see,
Evermore and evermore.
David Smith.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
al?fa, ō?me-ga, o-mē?ga (Alpha and Omega = A and O): The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, hence, symbolically, ?beginning and end?; in Revelation ?The Eternal One? in Rev_1:8 of the Father, in Rev_21:6 and Rev_22:13 of the Son. Compare Theodoret, Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica, iv. 8: ?We used alpha down to omega, i.e. all.? A similar expression is found in Latin (Martial, v.26). Compare Aretas (Cramer's Catenae Graecae in New Testament) on Rev_1:8 and Tertullian (Monog, 5): ?So also two Greek letters, the first and last, did the Lord put on Himself, symbols of the beginning and the end meeting in Him, in order that just as alpha rolls on to omega and omega returns again to alpha, so He might show that both the evolution of the beginning to the end is in Him and again the return of the end to the beginning.? Cyprian, Testim, ii.1; vi.22, iii.100, Paulinus of Nola Carm. xix.645; xxx.89; Prudentius, Cathem., ix.10-12. In Patristic and later literature the phrase is regularly applied to the Son. God blesses Israel from 'ālēph to taw (Lev_26:3-13), but curses from waw to mem (Lev 26:14-43). So Abraham observed the whole law from 'ālēph to taw. Consequently, ?Alpha and Omega? may be a Greek rendering of the Hebrew phrase, which expressed among the later Jews the whole extent of a thing.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
This explains the title. In each instance St. John defines It. Rev_1:8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] the beginning and the ending is an interpolation from Rev_21:6, Rev_22:13), i.e. the Eternal, the Contemporary of every generation. Rev_21:6 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end; Rev_22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last (cf. Isa_44:6; Isa_48:12), the beginning and the end, i.e. He who comprehends and embraces all things, from whom all come and to whom all return, the fons et clausula, the starting-point and the goal of history (cf. Col_1:17). The ascription of this title to Jesus as well as to God in a writing so early as the Apocalypse strikingly attests the view of our Lords Person which prevailed in the primitive Church.
Aurelius Prudentius makes fine use of the title in his hymn on The Lords Nativity (Corde natus ex parentis), thus rendered by Neale:
Of the Fathers love begotten
Ere the worlds began to be,
He is Alpha and Omega,
He the source, the ending He,
Of the things that are, that have been,
And that future years shall see,
Evermore and evermore.
David Smith.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
al?fa, ō?me-ga, o-mē?ga (Alpha and Omega = A and O): The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, hence, symbolically, ?beginning and end?; in Revelation ?The Eternal One? in Rev_1:8 of the Father, in Rev_21:6 and Rev_22:13 of the Son. Compare Theodoret, Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica, iv. 8: ?We used alpha down to omega, i.e. all.? A similar expression is found in Latin (Martial, v.26). Compare Aretas (Cramer's Catenae Graecae in New Testament) on Rev_1:8 and Tertullian (Monog, 5): ?So also two Greek letters, the first and last, did the Lord put on Himself, symbols of the beginning and the end meeting in Him, in order that just as alpha rolls on to omega and omega returns again to alpha, so He might show that both the evolution of the beginning to the end is in Him and again the return of the end to the beginning.? Cyprian, Testim, ii.1; vi.22, iii.100, Paulinus of Nola Carm. xix.645; xxx.89; Prudentius, Cathem., ix.10-12. In Patristic and later literature the phrase is regularly applied to the Son. God blesses Israel from 'ālēph to taw (Lev_26:3-13), but curses from waw to mem (Lev 26:14-43). So Abraham observed the whole law from 'ālēph to taw. Consequently, ?Alpha and Omega? may be a Greek rendering of the Hebrew phrase, which expressed among the later Jews the whole extent of a thing.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
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