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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 723 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALPHA and OMEGA (A and il), the first and last letters of the See also:

Greek See also:alphabet, corresponding to the Aleph and Taw of the See also:Hebrew. They are used as a designation of Himself by the See also:speaker in Rev. i. 8; xxi. 6; xxii. 13. The first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet are used in Rabbinic writings in a similar way. We find also " the See also:seal of See also:God is Emeth," Emeth (truth) being composed of the first, See also:middle and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. God is thus represented as the beginning, middle and end of all things (see the Jewish See also:Encyclopaedia, s.v.).

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