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ALPHA

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 723 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ALM-ANC

ALPHA and OMEGA (A and il), the first and last letters of the

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

alphabet

ALPHABET (see also
WRITING
- WRITING
- WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)
)

, corresponding to the Aleph and Taw of the

Hebrew

HEBREW

. They are used as a designation of Himself by the

speaker

SPEAKER

in Rev. i. 8; xxi. 6; xxii. 13. The first and last letters of the

Hebrew

HEBREW

alphabet

ALPHABET (see also
WRITING
- WRITING
- WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)
)

are used in Rabbinic writings in a similar way. We find also " the

seal

of God is Emeth," Emeth (truth) being composed of the first,

middle

MIDDLE

and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. God is thus represented as the beginning,

middle

MIDDLE

and end of all things (see the Jewish

Encyclopaedia

ENCYCLOPAEDIA

, s.v.).

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