Beginning. 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.