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Alpha and Omega
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alpha and omega the Alpha and the Omega
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Proper noun
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en Christianity A title for Jesus Christ and/or God, signifying that he is the beginning and end of all things.
Revelation 1 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
en 1764 1699 w:Lodowicke Muggleton The Acts of the Witneſſes of the Spirit 91 https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=6FxgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA91 Here you ſee the Alpha and Omega was Dead; And was not the Alpha and Omega God? And you ſee by the Scripture, that the Alpha and Omega was Dead: And was there any Alpha and Omega that Died but Jeſus Chriſt? And was there any Alpha and Omega that quickened out of Death to Life again, but Chriſt?
en 1889 R. W. D. Nickle Light and Colour: Emblematic of Revealed Truth 49 https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=WjoMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA49 I. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega of the entire creation (Col. i. 16, 17).II. That He is the Alpha and Omega of the Divine manifestations (John xiv. 8—11).III. That He is the Alpha and Omega of the Scriptures (Isa. xliv. 6; Rev. i. 8).IV. That He is the Alpha and Omega of man’s salvation (Rom. v. 19).V. That He is the Alpha and Omega of spiritual life in the soul of the believer (John xv. 5).VI. That He is the Alpha and Omega of the believer’s glory (Rev. xxi.).
en 2009 w:James L. Resseguie The Revelation of John: A Narrative Commentary 80 https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=6LO1iPKHZuEC&pg=PA80 God is the Alpha and Omega or the beginning and end and, appropriately, the book opens and closes with this self-designation. Similarly, Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end and, once more, the book opens and closes with this self-designation.
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- Alphas and Omegas
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