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Topic:
Thoughts And Things Of The Bible -- Alpha
Alpha (A), is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. With Omega, the
last letter, it is used in the Old Testament and in the New to express
the eternity of God, as including both the beginning and the end.
(Revelation 1:8,11; 21:6; 22:13; Isaiah 41:4; 44:6) hence these letters
became a favorite symbol of the eternal divinity of our Lord, and were
used for this purpose in connection with the cross, or the monogram of
Christ (i.e. the first two letters, ch and r, of Christ's name in
Greek). Both Greeks and Hebrews employed the letters of the alphabet as
numerals.
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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