Arche and Telos

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.