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The image at the top of the article uses "Αω" rather than the more popular "ΑΩ", or the more original "αω" (as the earliest text fragments are in miniscule). As I am planning on making an SVG version of this, I wondering if there was a reason for this. — trlkly 11:46, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
The following section was copied verbatim from the Catholic Encyclopedia [1] without attribution. The writing and citations given are out of context and therefore nonsensical. I removed it from the article as being too confusing and not adding to the topic. 141.166.137.146 ( talk) 22:17, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
This symbol was suggested by the Apocalypse, where many believe that Christ, as well as the Father, is "the First and the Last" (ii, 8) full citation needed; "the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end" (cf., xxii, 13; i, 8). Clement of Alexandria (2nd century, philosopher and commentator on pagan and Christian information) speaks of the Word as "the Alpha and the Omega of Whom alone the end becomes beginning, and ends again at the original beginning without any break" ( Stromata, IV, 25). Tertullian (lawyer, theologian) also alludes to Christ as the Alpha and Omega (De Monogamiâ, v), and from Prudentius (Cathemer., ix, 10) we learn that in the fourth century the interpretation of the apocalyptic letters was still the same: "Alpha et Omega cognominatus, ipse fons et clausula, Omnium quae sunt, fuerunt, quaeque post futura sunt." It was, however, in the monuments of early Christianity that the symbolic Alpha and Omega had their greatest vogue.
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I tried looking for Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (I was struggling with the spelling /tei:a/) and I ended up here first. I think it might be worth adding a See Also to Omega Point ( Pierre Teilhard de Chardin). I didn't as this is not my area and I know religious articles are wiki war zones, so I am just suggesting. -- Squidonius ( talk) 21:47, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
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The image at the top of the article uses "Αω" rather than the more popular "ΑΩ", or the more original "αω" (as the earliest text fragments are in miniscule). As I am planning on making an SVG version of this, I wondering if there was a reason for this. — trlkly 11:46, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
The following section was copied verbatim from the Catholic Encyclopedia [1] without attribution. The writing and citations given are out of context and therefore nonsensical. I removed it from the article as being too confusing and not adding to the topic. 141.166.137.146 ( talk) 22:17, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
This symbol was suggested by the Apocalypse, where many believe that Christ, as well as the Father, is "the First and the Last" (ii, 8) full citation needed; "the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end" (cf., xxii, 13; i, 8). Clement of Alexandria (2nd century, philosopher and commentator on pagan and Christian information) speaks of the Word as "the Alpha and the Omega of Whom alone the end becomes beginning, and ends again at the original beginning without any break" ( Stromata, IV, 25). Tertullian (lawyer, theologian) also alludes to Christ as the Alpha and Omega (De Monogamiâ, v), and from Prudentius (Cathemer., ix, 10) we learn that in the fourth century the interpretation of the apocalyptic letters was still the same: "Alpha et Omega cognominatus, ipse fons et clausula, Omnium quae sunt, fuerunt, quaeque post futura sunt." It was, however, in the monuments of early Christianity that the symbolic Alpha and Omega had their greatest vogue.
References
I tried looking for Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (I was struggling with the spelling /tei:a/) and I ended up here first. I think it might be worth adding a See Also to Omega Point ( Pierre Teilhard de Chardin). I didn't as this is not my area and I know religious articles are wiki war zones, so I am just suggesting. -- Squidonius ( talk) 21:47, 10 August 2016 (UTC)