Revelation 3:14
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And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things says the Truth, the faithful and true witness, the ruler over God's creation:[fn]
Footnotes
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the Truth. Greek is literally 'the Amen'; cf. the 'God of truth [amen]' in Isa 65:16. See G. K. Beale, *The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text* (NIGTC; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999), commentary on Rev 3:14.
ruler over God's creation. Greek *ἀρχή* is taken here in its governmental sense, not as 'beginning'; cf. Rev 1:5; 3:21. See Michael J. Svigel, "Christ as Ἀρχή in Revelation 3:14," *Bibliotheca Sacra* 161 (2004): 215–31.
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