At 04:01 PM 1/2/00 -0500, George Murphy wrote:
> I heartily agree that the vast majority of numerology is nonsense but
>it's clear that the author of Revelation was using 666 to refer to something.
>In fact the practice of "gemetria" - adding up the numerical values of
letters
>in a name to get a value for that name - was fairly common in the 1st
century.
>(There is a graffiti at Pompeii, "I love a girl whose name is 545.")
> The number of the beast in Rev.13:18 is generlly given as 666, though there
>is some manuscript evidence for 616. The alphabet to be used is Greek or
Hebrew.
>With the latter, nrn qsr, "Nero Caesar", gives 666 while omission of the
final n for
>nr qsr gives 616. Another possibility _if_ 616 is the correct reading is
the Greek
>kaisar theos, "Caesar [is] God."
Wait a minute. I still don't see how nrn qsr gives 666. There aren't that
many letters.
English has more letters than Latin, Greek or Hebrew. If every letter of
Nero's name was Z then that is 26 x 10 (Nero Caesar) = 260. Adding Drusus
to his name you getn 26 *16=416. I can't see how adding the numeric values
gets me there! For this mentally challenged person can you spell this out?
The math doesn't add up.
glenn
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