...proclaiming in the hearing of St. John, with a voice like the sound of a trumpet, " I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last" — " I am he that liveth, and was dead, and, behold, I am alive forever more, Amen ; and have the keys of hell and of death." Rev. 1.2,...

...ending, saith the Lord ; which is, and which was, and which is to come; the Almighty. .Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he, that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, lam alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of Hades and of death 3. 1 Coloss....

...no longer from amidst the shades of the cross, but from his throne in the heavens, " Fear not : I am the First, and the Last ; I am He that liveth, and was dead, and am alive for evermore ; and have the keys of hell and of death." And, as it is our duty thus...

...turning he saw « one like unto the Son of Man," who laid his hand upon him and said : " Fear not, I am the first and the last ; I am he that liveth and was dead.'' And in the second chapter Sth verse, the same person says : •* These things saith the first...

...him I fell at his feet as dead : and he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not, I am the First and the Last, I am he, that liveth and was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen. Revelation ii. 8, These things saith the First and...

...Christ, appearing in vision to John, expressly and repeatedly claimed to himself.3 " Fear not, I am the First and the Last : " I am he that liveth and was dead, and am alive " for evermore." How can any reasonable man suppose that Jesus, had he been no more...

...one dead before the overwhelming glory of his Divine Lord, the Saviour said to him, " Pear not; I am the first and the last : I am he that liveth, and...behold, I am alive for evermore ; and have the keys of hell and of death." The sorrows of the bereaved are not spread before Jesus in vain. No being in the...

...in Christ. The Son of Man was with him, and was whispering to his parting spirit, " Fear not ; I am the First and the Last : I am He that liveth, and was dead ; and, behold, I am alive for evermore." Reading to him of the Saviour's crucifixion, he lifted...

...kings, and " Lord of lords ;" and in Rev. i. 17. he assumes to himself these characteristics : " I am the first and the last ; I am he " that liveth, and was dead ; and, behold, I " am alive for evermore. Amen : and have " the keys of hell and of death." "...

...not ashamed to own, when he appeared in a form of so much majesty to John. "Fear not," says he, "I am the first and the last; I am he that liveth, and was dead ; and behold I am alive for evermore;" Rev. i. 17, 18. The man that hung on Calvary, and lay dead...