Alpha and Omega

Alpha and Omega or the Alpha and Omega

1. (Christianity) A title for Jesus Christ and/or God, signifying that he is the beginning and end of all things.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 1:8:

     I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

   • 1764 [1699], Lodowicke Muggleton, The Acts of the Witneſſes of the Spirit, page 91:

     Here you ſee the Alpha and Omega was Dead; And was not the Alpha and Omega God? And you ſee by the Scripture, that the Alpha and Omega was Dead: And was there any Alpha and Omega that Died but Jeſus Chriſt? And was there any Alpha and Omega that quickened out of Death to Life again, but Chriſt?

   • 1889, R. W. D. Nickle, Light and Colour: Emblematic of Revealed Truth, page 49:

     I. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega of the entire creation (Col. i. 16, 17).
     II. That He is the Alpha and Omega of the Divine manifestations (John xiv. 8—11).
     III. That He is the Alpha and Omega of the Scriptures (Isa. xliv. 6; Rev. i. 8).
     IV. That He is the Alpha and Omega of man’s salvation (Rom. v. 19).
     V. That He is the Alpha and Omega of spiritual life in the soul of the believer (John xv. 5).
     VI. That He is the Alpha and Omega of the believer’s glory (Rev. xxi.).

   • 2009, James L. Resseguie, The Revelation of John: A Narrative Commentary, page 80:

     God is the Alpha and Omega or the beginning and end and, appropriately, the book opens and closes with this self-designation. Similarly, Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end and, once more, the book opens and closes with this self-designation.

Alpha and Omega (usually uncountable, plural Alphas and Omegas)

1. Alternative letter-case form of alpha and omega.