AMEN, Ἄμην, signifies true, faithful, certain. It is made use of likewise to affirm anything, and was a sort of affirmation used often by our Saviour: Ἀμὴν, Ἀμὴν, λέγω ὑμῖν, i.e., Verily, verily, I say unto you. Lastly, it is understood as expressing a wish: as, amen, so be it, (Numb. v. 22); or an affirmation, amen; yes, I believe it, (1 Cor. xiv. 16.) The Hebrews end the five books of Psalms, according to their way of distributing them, with the words amen, amen; which the Septuagint have translated γέγονο, γέγονο; and the Latins fiat, fiat. The Greek and Latin churches have preserved this word in their prayers, as well as alleluia and hosanna; because they observe more energy in them than in any terms which they could use in their own languages. At the conclusion of the public prayers, the people answered with a loud voice, Amen; and St. Jerome says, that at Rome, when the people answered amen, the sound of their voices was like a clap of thunder: In similitudine caelestis tonitruī amen reboat.