The prophets use the formula, " Thus saith the Lord," but he goes beyond them and speaks in his own name, " Amen, I say unto you."
For thine is the power and the glory, for ever and ever, Amen.'
Bianca coughed to cover her laugh, and Pierre seconded the vamp with a quiet amen.
Among certain Gnostic sects Amen became the name of an angel, and in post-biblical Jewish works exaggerated statements are multiplied as to the right method and the bliss of pronouncing it.