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Matthew 1:1
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peshitta_enthusiast Wrote:And the very LAST verse of the NT ends in Amen! <!-- sBig Grin --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/happy.gif" alt="Big Grin" title="Happy" /><!-- sBig Grin --> Alpha and omega? Puh-leez... The "Alpha" and the "Omega" of the NT have Aramaic idiom <!-- sWink --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/wink1.gif" alt="Wink" title="Wink" /><!-- sWink -->

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Adam Clarke tries to be bosom buddies with Zorba (our forum epithet for Greek scribe <!-- sSmile --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /><!-- sSmile --> ) and Penuel (our forum epithet for Aramean or Jewish scribe <!-- sSmile --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /><!-- sSmile --> ). Here's the way it comes out.....

{QUOTE FROM ADAM CLARKE'S COMMENTARY}
Rev 1:8 -
I am Alpha and Omega - I am from eternity to eternity. This mode of speech is borrowed from the Jews, who express the whole compass of things by א aleph and ת tau, the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet; but as St. John was writing in Greek, he accommodates the whole to the Greek alphabet, of which Α alpha and Ω omega are the first and last letters. With the rabbins מא ועד ת meeleph vead tau, “from aleph to tau,” expressed the whole of a matter, from the beginning to the end. So in Yalcut Rubeni, fol. 17, 4: Adam transgressed the whole law from aleph to tau; i.e., from the beginning to the end.
Ibid., fol. 48, 4: Abraham observed the law, from aleph to tau; i.e., he kept it entirely, from beginning to end.
Ibid., fol. 128, 3: When the holy blessed God pronounced a blessing on the Israelites, he did it from aleph to tau; i.e., he did it perfectly.
The beginning and the ending - That is, as aleph or alpha is the beginning of the alphabet, so am I the author and cause of all things; as tau or omega is the end or last letter of the alphabet, so am I the end of all things, the destroyer as well as the establisher of all things. This clause is wanting in almost every MS. and version of importance. It appears to have been added first as an explanatory note, and in process of time crept into the text. Griesbach has left it out of the text. It is worthy of remark, that as the union of א aleph and ת tau in Hebrew make את eth, which the rabbins interpret of the first matter out of which all things were formed, (see on Gen_1:1 (note)); so the union of Α alpha and Ω omega, in Greek, makes the verb αω, I breathe, and may very properly, in such a symbolical book, point out Him in whom we live, and move, and have our being; for, having formed man out of the dust of the earth, he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living soul; and it is by the inspiration or inbreathing of his Spirit that the souls of men are quickened, made alive from the dead, and fitted for life eternal. He adds also that he is the Almighty, the all-powerful framer of the universe, and the inspirer of men.
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Akha Larry
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Matthew 1:1 - by Larry Kelsey - 11-06-2004, 08:33 PM
[No subject] - by peshitta_enthusiast - 11-06-2004, 10:39 PM
[No subject] - by peshitta_enthusiast - 11-06-2004, 10:41 PM
[No subject] - by peshitta_enthusiast - 11-06-2004, 10:43 PM
Re: - by Larry Kelsey - 11-07-2004, 01:37 AM
Rev. 1:4--VERY JEWISH !!! - by Larry Kelsey - 11-07-2004, 02:48 AM

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