Reference: Beginning
Morish
Besides the common use of this word in many connections, it is used in a special sense to carry the mind back into
a, eternity, when the Word was with God, and was God, by whom all things were made. Joh 1:1-3; Ac 15:18 (which should read 'from eternity'). Also to the eternity of Jehovah, 'the beginning and the end.' Re 1:8; 21:6; 22:13.
b, The creation, whether it was creating out of nothing or forming the heavens and the earth Isa 64:4; Heb 1:10. Also the creation of man and woman. Mt 19:4,8; Mr 10:6.
c, The beginning of Christianity. Joh 15:27; 16:4; 1Jo 1:1; 3:11; 2Jo 1:5-6.
d, foundation or source, It is used also with a moral sense as a foundation or source, as in Col 1:18; Re 3:14.
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And it cometh to pass after the death of Moses, servant of Jehovah, that Jehovah speaketh unto Joshua son of Nun, minister of Moses, saying,
'No man doth station himself before thee all days of thy life; as I have been with Moses, I am with thee, I do not fail thee, nor forsake thee; be strong and courageous, for thou -- thou dost cause this people to inherit the land which I have sworn to their fathers to give to them.
lo, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into Jordan;
Even from antiquity men have not heard, They have not given ear, Eye hath not seen a God save Thee, He doth work for those waiting for Him.
And he answering said to them, 'Did ye not read, that He who made them, from the beginning a male and a female made them,
He saith to them -- 'Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.
but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; this one was in the beginning with God; read more. all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.
and ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.
But these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour may come, ye may remember them, that I said them to you, and these things to you from the beginning I did not say, because I was with you;
'Known from the ages to God are all His works;
And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all things -- himself -- first,
and, 'Thou, at the beginning, Lord, the earth didst found, and a work of thy hands are the heavens;
I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming -- the Almighty.'
And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness -- the faithful and true -- the chief of the creation of God;
and He said to me, 'It hath been done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; I, to him who is thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of the life freely;
I am the Alpha and the Omega -- the Beginning and End -- the First and the Last.