Jesus is confirming his introduction.
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Jesus does not use the title 'Alpha and Omega'. See post #6 above.
The
RSV, NRSV, NASB, NEB, REB, NKJV, NAB (1991 ed.),
ESV,
ISV,
NLT,
21st Century King James Version,
Third Millennium Bible, and
TEV show (by quotation marks and indenting) that Rev. 22:14 and 15 are not the words of the speaker of verses 12 and 13 but are
John’s words.
(
The Jerusalem Bible and the
NJB show us that the
angel spoke all the words from verse 10 through verse 15.) Then they show Jesus as a
new speaker beginning to speak in verse 16.
So, if you insist that the person speaking just before verse 16 is the same person who is speaking
in verse 16, then, according to the trinitarian
RSV, NRSV, NASB, NEB, REB, NKJV, NAB (1991 ed.),
ESV,
ISV,
NLT,
21st Century King James Version,
Third Millennium Bible, and
TEV, you are saying
John is
Jesus!!! (According to the
JB and
NJB you would be insisting that the
angel is
Jesus!)
And, just as the use of “I, John” indicated a
new speaker in Revelation, so does the only other such usage in that same book. Yes, Rev. 22:16 - “
I, Jesus” also introduces a
new speaker. This means, of course, that the previous statement (“I am the Alpha and Omega”) was made by someone else!
Even the
KJV translators have shown by their use of the word “his” in verse 14 that they didn’t mean that Jesus was the same speaker as the Alpha and Omega. The speaker of verse 13 is Almighty God. The comment in verse 14 of these Bibles (as literally translated from the Received Text) explains the importance of doing “
his Commandments” (not “
my Commandments”)! Therefore the speaker of verse 14 is obviously
not God as clearly stated by those Bibles which were translated from the Received Text, e.g.,
KJV; NKJV; KJIIV; MKJV; Young’s Literal Translation; Webster Bible (by Noah Webster); and
Revised Webster Bible. Lamsa’s translation (
Holy Bible From the Ancient Eastern Text) also uses “him.“