Revelation 1:8 (WEB)
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Catechism · 1
“…of faith the gathering together of everyone and everything in him who has "the keys of Death and Hades," who "is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."” — Catechism footnote: Rev 1:8, 18; cf. Rev 1:4; Eph 1:10.
Fathers and councils · 13
Augustine of Hippo
“It is in accordance with this temporal dispensation, therefore, that He speaks in the Apocalypse, where it is written in this wise: “These things saith He, who is, and who was, and who is to come.”” — editor's note: Rev. i. 8
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Jerome
“Whence also the Saviour himself in the Revelation of John says, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending.”” — editor's note: Rev. i. 8; xxii. 13.
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Tertullian
“Meanwhile, let this be my immediate answer to the argument which they adduce from the Revelation of John: “I am the Lord which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty;” and from all other passages which in their opinion make the designation of Almighty God unsuitable to the Son.” — editor's note: Rev. i. 8.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.1Discourse III
“…His being said to be Father:—for instance, that He is God, ‘And the Word was God;’ Almighty, ‘Thus saith He which was and is and is to come, the Almighty;’ Lord, ‘One Lord Jesus Christ;’ that He is Light, ‘I am the Light;’ that He wipes out sins, ‘that ye may know,’ He says, ‘that the Son of man hath power upon…” — editor's note: Rev. i. 8.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“For to this effect John also has said, “Which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”” — editor's note: Apoc. i. 8.
Read the whole comment“According to Simon, therefore, there exists that which is blessed and incorruptible in a latent condition in every one—(that is,) potentially, not actually; and that this is He who stood, stands, and is to stand.” — editor's note: The expression stans (standing) was used by the scholastics as applicable to the divine nature. Interpreted in this manner, the words in the text would be…
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Origen
“And that you may understand that the omnipotence of Father and Son is one and the same, as God and the Lord are one and the same with the Father, listen to the manner in which John speaks in the Apocalypse: “Thus saith the Lord God, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”” — editor's note: Rev. i. 8.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…say that God is One, neither dividing His Son from Him, as do the heathen, nor denying, with the Jews, that He was begotten of the Father before all worlds, and afterwards born of the Virgin; nor yet, like Sabellius, confounding the Father with the Word, and so maintaining that Father and Son are one and the same…” — editor's note: The original is ante tempora—“before the ages”—“before time was.” Cf. 1 Cor. viii. 6; Phil. ii. 6–8; Col. i. 15 (πρωτότοκος πάσης κτίσεως—“first-born of all…
Read the whole comment“I am Alpha and Omega, saith the Lord God, Who is, and Who was, and Who is to come, the Almighty.”” — editor's note: Rev. i. 8.
Read the whole comment“…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.
Read the whole comment“He is “the Beginning and the Ending.”” — editor's note: Rev. i. 8.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
““The Lord rained down fire from the Lord;” and “A sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of Thy Kingdom;” and “Which is and was and is to come, the Almighty”—all which are clearly spoken of the Son, with all the other passages of the same force, none of which is an afterthought, or added later to the Son or the…” — editor's note: Rev. i. 8.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Rightly, therefore, the Lord again promises milk to the righteous, that the Word may be clearly shown to be both, “the Alpha and Omega, beginning and end;” the Word being figuratively represented as milk.” — editor's note: Rev. i. 8.
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Cross-references · 11
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.12.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.4.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.4.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 17.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.4.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 17.
Cited together in A Treatise on Faith and the Creed Chapter 8.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 17.
Cited together in Catechism §2854.