Revelation 2:8 (WEB)
“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:
Fathers and councils · 2
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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Tertullian
“Therefore he has trifled both with his own “spirit,” and with “the angel of the Church,” and with “the power of the Lord,” if he rescinded what by their counsel he had formally pronounced.” — editor's note: Comp. Rev. i. 20; ii. 1, 8, 12, 18; iii. 1, 7, 14.
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