522. [verse 17] 'Saying, We give Thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, Who art and Who wast and Who art to come' signifies confession and glorification by the angels of heaven that it is the Lord Who is, Who lives, and Who has power out of His Very Self and rules all things, because He Only is Eternal and Infinite. By 'to give thanks' is signified the acknowledgment and glorification of the Lord. That the Son of Man, Who is the Lord as to the Divine Human, is the Almighty, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First and the Last, also He Who is and Who was and Who is to come, can be seen above in the Apocalypse (chaps. i 8, 11, 17; ii 8; iv 8); and that those statements signify that it is He Who is, lives, and has power out of His Very Self, Who rules all things, and Who Only is Eternal and Infinite and God, may be seen above (n. 13, 29, 30, 31, 38, 57, 92).