248. 'Who was and Who is and Who is to come' signifies the Lord. That it is the Lord is quite plain in the First Chapter, verses 4, 8, 11, 17, where it treats of the Son of Man, Who is the Lord as to the Word; and there it says openly that HE IS ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE ENDING THE FIRST AND THE LAST, WHO IS, AND WHO WAS, AND WHO IS TO COME, AND THE ALMIGHTY. But what is signified by those words has been expounded (n. 13, 29, 30, 31, 38, 57). Here now [is expounded] that the Lord is understood by 'Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and Who is and Who is to come.