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Revelation 22:13

The Pulpit Commentary on Revelation 22:13

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last; the Alpha, etc. Reverse the position of the two last phrases. These words, which appropriately open and close the book (cf. ), occur (like those in above) continually in Isaiah (see ; ; ; ).

All three titles are here combined, as if to finally gather up into one impressive assertion the titles hitherto used separately (cf. , ; ; ).

"The first title is symbolical; the second is borrowed from the Old Testament; the third is philosophical "('Speaker's Commentary').

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