Revelation 3:14 (WEB)
“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:
Catechism · 1
“Jesus Christ himself is the "Amen."” — Catechism footnote: Rev 3:14.
Fathers and councils · 9
Athanasius of Alexandria
“…as if He exercises faith and so receives the reward of faith, they must proceed at this rate to find fault with Moses for saying, ‘God faithful and true,’ and with St. Paul for writing, ‘God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able.’” — editor's note: Combines Greek of Deut. xxxii. 4 and Ex. xxxiv. 6; cf. Rev. iii. 14.
Read the whole comment“Again the time has arrived which brings to us a new beginning, even the announcement of the blessed Passover, in which the Lord was sacrificed.” — editor's note: Cf. Rev. iii. 14, c. Apoll. i. 20.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“For they conceded cheerfully the appellation of Witness to Christ ‘the faithful and true Witness,’ and ‘firstborn of the dead,’ and prince of the life of God; and they reminded us of the witnesses who had already departed, and said, ‘They are already…” — editor's note: Rev. iii. 14.
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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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Ephrem the Syrian
“In Thee will I begin to speak, Thou Head that didst begin all created things.” — editor's note: Rev. iii. 14.
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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he has trifled both with his own “spirit,” and with “the angel of the Church,” and with “the power of the Lord,” if he rescinded what by their counsel he had formally pronounced.”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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Augustine of Hippo
“…Word, who is named in Scripture “the Beginning,” as He Himself, in the gospel, replied to the Jews when they asked Him who He was, that He was the Beginning;—I will not contest the point, chiefly because it gives me the liveliest satisfaction to find the Trinity celebrated in the very beginning of the book of…” — editor's note: Augustin refers to John viii. 25; see p. 195. He might rather have referred to Rev. iii. 14.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And the names of the angels begotten by the Father are these: Michaël, Amen, Baruch, Gabriel, Esaddæus.…And of the maternal angels which Edem brought forth, the names in like manner have been subjoined, and they are as follows: Babel,…” — editor's note: See Rev. iii. 14. [Bunsen, i. 39.]
Read the whole comment“Then he said, that the restoration of the entire ensued when all the (elements), coming down into the one letter, sounded one and the same pronunciation, and an image of the pronunciation he supposed to exist when we simultaneously utter the word Amen.” — editor's note: [Rev. iii. 14. A name of Christ. This word is travestied as the name Logos also, most profanely.]
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.21.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.21.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.21.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 10.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 10.
Cited together in The City of God XI.32.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.21.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.21.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.21.
Cited together in The City of God XI.32.
Cited together in The City of God XI.32.
Cited together in The City of God XI.32.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.21.
Cited together in Catechism §1065.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 10.
Cited together in Church History V.2.