For a long time I have thought that the identification of God as the Alpha and the Omega in the Book of Revelation is very Aristotelian: God is the efficient and final cause of all. Indeed, Revelation 22:13 explicitly glosses as he arche kai ho telos. This may initially seem an over-metaphysicalization of Scripture, but I think it is a very Scriptural idea that particular aspects of God’s involvement in the world—us being comforted (in a way) that God is the arche and the telos of the upheavals in the Book of Revelation—are mirrors of God’s innate nature.
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