Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/A (entry)

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See the modern Wikipedia entry at Alpha (letter).
See also:

“Alpha (letter),” from the modern Wikipedia
 “A,” from the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911
 “A,” from The New Student's Reference Work of 1914
 “A,” from Collier's New Encyclopedia of 1921
 “A (entry),” from Easton's Bible Dictionary of 1897
 “Alpha and Omega,” from the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913


A Alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet, as Omega is the last. These letters occur in the text of Revelation 1:8,11; 21:6; 22:13, and are represented by "Alpha" and "Omega" respectively (omitted in R.V., Revelation 1:11). They mean "the first and last." (Comp. Hebrews 12:2; Isaiah 41:4; 44:6; Revelation 1:11,17; 2:8.) In the symbols of the early Christian Church these two letters are frequently combined with the cross or with Christ's monogram to denote his divinity.

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