OPULAR song titles and personal religious confessions express man's concern about the end of things, and the record of this concern is at least as ancient as Amos and as contemporary as broadcasts of a bomb test. But to speak of an end requires, of logical necessity, the postulation of a beginning. My intention here is to indicate briefly how beginning and end are used as biblical concepts. I am not concerned with either the ontology or the epistemology of time, e.g., with as an a priori form of perception or as a fourth dimension. For present purposes, time is considered to be the recognition of a past, a present, and a future; hence, little attempt is made here to deal with the philosophical presuppositions and consequences involved in such a concept. Further, space does not permit the critical evaluation of biblical texts which would be required if the development of concepts was intended.2