Alpha & Omega Male | Jesus Christ Image of Edessa IkonoGraphic | To the One Who Is Victorious | Orthodox Christian Art PosterI am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Revelation 21: 13 To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. Revelation 3: 21 With thy Cross the entire earth is pierced, and drenched with Thine honorable Blood; by Thy resurrection all the graves in the universe are destroyed and the final victory of good is

Saint Marina continued to pray

where the Apostles still remained in dismay

and my maids

and the other is that the image is of the Church

+ Blessed Seraphim of Platina

"God the Word

and be their God

The true Christian is a warrior fighting his way through the regiments of the unseen enemy to his heavenly homeland

as the Nourisher of all has said

he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth

+ St Cyril of Alexandria

The specifics of the nature of the soul as defined by Socrates and his student Plato offer a teachable moment into why such matters require direct revelation of God