Echa Rabbati, fol. Ep. New Bible Commentary ~ 21st Century Edition ~ Inter-Varsity Press (t) T. Bab. 1. 3. Besides, a portion of the language used here, "which is, and was, and is to come," is what would more naturally suggest a reference to God as such, than to the Lord Jesus Christ. Accomplishing finally what I begin. Always the same; before the dragon, the beast, false prophet, and all foes. Written in 1891 for the novice student of the Bible, this work was prepared with such aids as would enable the common reader to arrive at an understanding of every verse. Moreover, these letters, Alpha and Omega, being the first and the last in the alphabet, may stand for the whole; and it seems to be a proverbial expression taken from the Jews, who use the phrase, from Aleph to Tau, for the whole of any thing, which two letters in the Hebrew alphabet stand in the same place as these; accordingly the Syriac version renders it Olaph and Tau; and the Arabic version Aleph and Ye. The Reward of the 144,000. The Revelation of John, Volume 1 ~ William Barclay ~ Daily Study Bible New Testament, The St. Andrew Press. What Christ Thinks of the Church ~ John Stott ~ Candle Books. In Christ, Genesis, the Alpha of the Old Testament, and Revelation, the Omega of the New Testament, meet together: the last book presenting to us man and God reconciled in Paradise, as the first book presented man at the beginning innocent and in God's favor in Paradise. (9-11) The sixth. There is no real incongruity in supposing, also, that the writer here meant to refer to God as such, since the introduction of a reference to him would not be inappropriate to his manifest design.

1. 1. The Book of Revelation is rooted in the Old Testament. This same phrase is used of God the Father in the Almighty; as he appears to be, by creating all things but of nothing; by upholding all creatures in their beings; by the miracles he wrought on earth; by the resurrection of himself from the dead; by obtaining eternal redemption for his people; and by his having the care and government of them upon him, whom he keeps, upholds, bears, and carries to the end, through all their infirmities, afflictions, temptations, and trials, (s) Misn. The two parts of this chapter (vv... View the entire commentary.

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Complete Concise Chapter Contents. It occurs often in Revelation, but nowhere else in the New Testament save 2Co 6:18, a quotation from Isaiah. This one volume commentary was prepared by Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown and published in 1871. The Rabbinical writers used the phrase from Aleph to Tav, to signify completely, from beginning to end. We have just added many new sources, including The Expositor's Bible Commentary, Bengel's Gnomon, Lange's Commentary, Hastings Great Texts and many more.

A.T. Robertson, a renowned scholar of the Greek New Testament, takes through the New Testament, verse by verse, painting word pictures from the Greek to bring to light the words and actions of Jesus and the early Christians. Menachot, c. 8. sect. The codensed one-volume classic commentary The Book of Revelation ~ G. R. Beasley-Murray ~ New Century Bible. Baal Hatturim in (6) A confirmation of the greeting earlier, taken from the words of God himself: in which he affirms his operation in every single creature, the immutable eternity that is in himself, and his omnipotence in all things: and concludes in the unity of his own essence, that Trinity of persons which was spoken of before.

(f) I am he before whom there was nothing, indeed, by whom everything that is made, was made: and I shall remain though everything else should perish.Rev., rightly, gives the article, "the Alpha," etc. Written by well-known and popular theologians, 1. not be absolutely certain that the writer meant to refer to the Lord Jesus specifically here, this cannot be adduced with propriety as a proof-text to demonstrate his divinity. Originally written and published in French, these synopses were introduced book by book.

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