Revelation 1:17 (WEB)
When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,
Catechism · 1
“Above all, his human nature has been assumed by the divine person of the "Author of life", the "Living One".” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 3:15; Rev 1:17; Jn 1:4; 5:26.
Fathers and councils · 3
Irenaeus of Lyons
“But when John could not endure the sight (for he says, “I fell at his feet as dead;” that what was written might come to pass: “No man sees God, and shall live”), and the Word reviving him, and reminding him that it was He upon whose bosom he…” — editor's note: Rev. i. 17.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…had the Son of God any beginning, seeing that He already was at the beginning, nor shall He come to an end, Who is the Beginning and the End of the Universe; for being the Beginning, how could He take and receive that which He already had, or how shall He come to an end, being Himself the End of all things, so that…” — editor's note: Rev. i. 8, 17; ii. 8; iii. 14; xxii. 13; Isa. xli. 4; xliv. 6; xlviii. 12.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And He laid His right hand upon me, and said, Fear not; I am the first and the last, and He that liveth and was dead; and, lo, I am living for evermore and I have the keys of death and of hell.”” — editor's note: Rev. i. 12–18.
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Cross-references · 11
Cited together in Catechism §612.
Cited together in Catechism §612.
Cited together in Catechism §612.
Cited together in Catechism §612.
Cited together in Catechism §612.
Cited together in Catechism §612.
Cited together in Catechism §612.
Cited together in Catechism §612.
Cited together in Catechism §612.
Cited together in Catechism §612.
Cited together in Catechism §612.