Arche and Telos

Peter J. Leithart
October 27, 2011
Category: Bible - NT - Revelation,Theology - Trinity

Jesus says, “I am the arche and telos” (Revelation 21:6).  ”Beginning and end” is too colorless, too geometric.  Jesus is not the two points at either end of a line segment.

Better to render this more “dynamically” and “organically” (forgive the hurrah words): Origin and destination; initiative and completion; source and goal; plan and execution, planner and overseer; starting block and winner’s prize; dawn and dusk; blueprint and building; call and dismissal; etc.

Jesus is not the ever-receding beginning, or the ever-approaching end, but both source and goal together, not just economically but ontologically.  At a stroke, this proves Jenson right.


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