A Handbook on The Revelation to John (Biblia.com)

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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

means. As translated by TEV, “the origin of all that God has created” (note REB “the source of God’s creation”), the meaning is that Christ is the one by means of whom God created all things, and in many languages it will be translated this way (see John 1:3; Col 1:16; Heb 1:2). The same Greek word for beginning is used also in Colossians 1:18 in the sense of “source.” As the TEV footnote indicates, the word may mean “ruler” (so NIV), but the other meaning is preferred by the large majority of commentaries

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