Not sure what I am referring to? Take a closer look:. Unfortunately, I cannot find a Hebrew numerology site to figure out what number my name translates to, so I can't share that bit of trivia with you nor can I ask you what your number is. Numberphile , a project by video journalist Brady Haran, is on facebook and can also be found on twitter numberphile. And what has roulette got to do with it!? I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia.
In the apocalyptic Revelation of John, there is a second beast who, risen from the sea, has seven heads, one of which once was wounded but then healed ,3.
Given power by Satan himself "to make war with the saints, and to overcome them" , this beast compelled that "all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him" and caused "that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed Moreover, the second beast marked everyone with its own mark, without which "no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name" Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six" In ancient Greek and Hebrew, letters also represented numerals as in Latin , their values assigned according to the order of the alphabet, alpha and aelph , for example, having the numerical value of 1.
By adding these values, words could be represented as the sum of their numbers. This literation of numbers and numeration of letters was known as isopsephia by the Greeks and gematria by the Jews which, in cabalistic practice, has been used to interpret Hebrew scripture.
Suetonius relates an example of isopsephia when he records that graffiti appeared in both Greek and Latin lampooning Nero after he had his mother killed: "A calculation new. In Greek, both "Nero" and "killed his own mother" have the same numerical value And, to be sure, it is intriguing that encodes the name of Nero in such a way when Revelation, itself, was written in Greek. In other words, the "number of the beast" was not expressed as "" indeed, discrete Arabic numerals would not be invented for another five hundred years but by the phrase hexakosioi hexekonta hex or the numerical values of the Greek letters themselves, chi , xi 60 , and stigma 6.
But what is curious is not so much that can be decoded to signify Nero but that the name is encoded in this particular number, especially since it could have been represented as readily in other ways. Even so, this is an alternate spelling, a letter being transliterated in "Neron" nrwn instead of nrw but not in "Caesar" qsr instead of qysr.
Although these forms do appear in the Talmud and an Aramaic scroll from Qumran, they no doubt complicated the solution to the puzzle.
As the Deity represents the beginning and end, so the Antichrist is a reversal of the first and last, D preceding I 1. If the Latin rather than the Greek spelling "Nero Caesar" is transliterated into Hebrew nrw qsr , the final "n" in Neron being omitted and its corresponding value of 50 , the name computes as , which is the number indicated in the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament the fragment illustrated below.
If "Neron Caesar" is correct, it may be that the Latin was transcribed incorrectly, perhaps because the copyist realized that this transliteration did not equate to and so omitted the letter, which changed the sum to Still, each digit of is one less than seven, the perfect number just as there were seven planets, seven heavens, and seven days in the week , and such mathematical play may have tended to establish , rather than Regardless of the number, Nero is the only name that can account for both and , which is the most compelling argument that he, and not some other person, such as Caligula or Domitian, was intended.
Too, for the number to have any significance for a reader of the first century AD, it would have to refer to a contemporary historical figure "for it is the number of a man. While it is a simple matter to determine the value of a word or phrase by adding the numerical equivalent of its letters, it is impossible to reverse the process with any certainty.
The number alone is not sufficient to determine the corresponding word; rather, there needs to be additional information. Writing a century later, Irenaeus is the first church father to comment on the number of the Beast, although he did not know what the number actually encoded and warned against "making surmises, and casting about for any names that may present themselves, inasmuch as many names can be found possessing the number mentioned; and the same question will, after all, remain unsolved" Against Heresies , V.
He understood John's vision to have occurred "almost in our day, towards the end of Domitian's reign," a tradition repeated by Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical History III. For Irenaeus, the name of the Beast "possesses the number six hundred and sixty-six, since he sums up in his own person all the commixture of wickedness which took place previous to the deluge If you add up the value of the numbers used by Rome for counting, what is the value of those numbers?
Goliath was 6 cubits and a span see 1 Samuel King Nebuchadnezzar erected a statue to himself to be worshipped. It was 60 cubits high and 6 cubits across Daniel The answer of course i The number of the Beast.
Then too, Caesar claimed to be God. The word god in Greek is theos. Kaisar Theos is , the alternate number in some manuscripts:.
If you are interested in numbers, you may like to know that the square of 6 6x6 is 36, and the triangular of 36 is Triangulation is a method of computation that was popular in the ancient world and was very familiar to people in the first century.
Another interesting aspect of this very mysterious number is that John wrote out the symbols. He didn't spell out the number. Between the two stood the symbol of the Serpent.
The whole formed a triple repetition of 6, the number of man, and the number day that Jesus was crucified Friday is the 6th day of the week with Saturday, the Sabbath, the 7th.
Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is This is one of the most debated verses in the entire Book of Revelation because of widespread disagreement over the identification and meaning of the number The most common line of interpretation is that of gematria : in the ancient world, letters of the alphabet often substituted for numerals our numerical system derives from the later Arabic mathematicians.
Hence, each letter stood for a number. The problem is that no clear identification can be made linking with any particular ancient historical name. Attempts have been made to alter spellings and incorporate titles to try to make a multitude of names fit, but nothing conclusive has emerged.
Unsuccessful attempts have been made to identify the number with other Roman emperors, or combinations of emperors. More than names were proposed in Britain between and Last century the names of Kaiser and Hitler, among others, have also been calculated to equal None of the many proposed solutions using the literal gematria form of calculation is ultimately satisfactory because there are so many names, ancient and modern, which could equal the number. The reason for so many proposals, as one commentator says, is that it is easy to turn a name into a number, but complicated to deduce the right name from a number.
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