εγενόμητε τρεῖς, faithful, certain. It is made use of likewise to affirm any thing, and was a sort of affirmation used often by our Saviour: Amen, ἐγενόμητε τρεῖς, i.e. Vertly, verify, 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 γένοιτο, γένοιτο; and the Latin, Fiat, fiat. The Greek and Latin churches have preserved this word in their prayers, as well as alleluia and hallelujah; because they observed 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 similitudinem celestis tonitruit Amen reboat. The Jews assert, that the gates of heaven are opened to him who answers Amen with all his might.