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Besides the common use of this word in many connections, it is used in a special sense to carry the mind back into
a, eternity, when the Word was with God, and was God, by whom all things were made. John 1: 1-3; Acts 15: 18 (which should read 'from eternity'). Also to the eternity of Jehovah, 'the beginning and the end.' Rev. 1: 8; Rev. 21: 6; Rev. 22: 13.
b, The creation, whether it was creating out of nothing or forming the heavens and the earth Isa. 64: 4; Heb. 1: 10. Also the creation of man and woman. Matt. 19: 4, 8; Mark 10: 6.
c, The beginning of Christianity. John 15: 27; John 16: 4; 1 John 1:
1; 1 John 3: 11; 2 John 5, 6.
d, foundation or source, It is used also with a moral sense as a foundation or source, as in Col. 1: 18; Rev. 3: 14.