Why is Jesus called “the Alpha and Omega” (Rev. 1:8, 11)?

The answer

The scholar Origen says, “But if there are letters of God, as there are, which the saints read and say they have read what is written in the tablets of heaven, those letters are the thoughts about the Son of God which are broken up into alpha and the letters that follow to omega, that heavenly matters might be read through them.”⁷⁸⁴ Without Him, we cannot comprehend anything about heaven and without Him the mouth is unable to utter any heavenly praise.

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty