Not true. That "title" is only used by people trying to make a title of the pope "666". The Catholics have never used it. The title they give him is "Vicarius Christi", meaning the representative or agent of Christ. Using an arrant falsehood like that does little to fiuther the credibility of your arguments.
This is also the kind or arglebargle you get into when you begin with an a priori position then try like mad to come up with some kind evidence to justify it.
Unfortunately you're chosen a false argument to support that notion, using a title for the pope that the RCC has never used.
It's still gematria, use whatever numbering system you will. And in any case, the Revelator assumed, properly, IMO, that the people to whom he addressed the Revelation (not us, BTW) would know to whom the number six hundred sixty six referred. After all, he didn't say that those who were familiar with arithmetic done in Roman numerals would know the identity of the beastm he said thse who had wisdom would know it. I reckon they did. They also knew that the time was at hand, and even at the door, as in fact it was.
He was writing to the 7 Churches. Is there stuff in there for us? Of course. But was there imediate and urgent information that he was adressing to the 7 Churches? Of course! It's ridiculous to think otherwise.
Nor have you; far from it.
Not really.
Gematria is not the same and has nothing to do with Romans Numerals (
more information here). Go do some more research. Roman numerals is not Gematria neither is it numerology. It is an old mathematics system used by the Roman Empire in daily living.
The official language of the Roman Catholic Church is
LATIN. Roman numerals use letters of the latin alphabet that assign numerical values and was the official counting system used throughout the ancient Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church and was used for counting and mathematics. (see
Wiki;
MathWorld;
MathisFun;
Study.com;
Roman Mathamatics).
Romans numerals unlike Gematria and Numerology is taught in our school systems. The Roman numerals are a numerical system composed of seven Latin letters
(Wictionary).
Post # 751 linked is using
LATIN numerical values from the titles of the Roman Catholic Church popes names which are written in
LATIN from which Roman numerals are derived.
REVELATION 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that has understanding count
the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred three score and six (
666).
666 THE NUMBER OF A MAN - NUMBER OF A MAN
Latin is the official language of the Roman Catholic Church which uses the Latin Vulgate Bible. Roman numerals are used to calculate the Beast's number which is the number of a man that equals 666.
Unlike your post we are talking many names not one name....
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LATIN NAMES AND THE POPE TITLE USING ROMAN NUMERALS
The ancient Greek word for "
the Latin speaking man" is
LATEINOS
L = 30 lambda
A = 1 alpha
T = 300 tau
E = 5 epsilon
I = 10 iota
N = 50 nu
O = 70 omicron
S = 200 sigma
------------
666
The ancient Greek for"
The Latin Kingdom" is
HE LATINE BASILEIA Strong's # G932
H = 0 (transliterated)
E = 8 eta
L = 30 lambda
A = 1 alpha
T = 300 tau
I = 10 iota
N = 50 nu
E = 8 eta
B = 2 beta
A = 1 alpha
S = 200 sigma
I = 10 iota
L = 30 lambda
E = 5 epsilon
I = 10 iota
A = 1 alpha
------------
666
And in ancient Greek the word
APOSTATES
A = 1 alpha
P = 80 pi
O = 70 omicron
ST = 6 stigma*
A = 1 alpha
T = 300 tau
E = 8 eta
S = 200 sigma
------------
666
* Stigma is a now obsolete Greek character, but it appears in the New Testament in Rev 13:18 to give the value 666 (chi xi stigma - See Strong's Concordance, # G5516).
And in ancient Greek the word for "
tradition"
PARADOSIS Strong's # G3862
P = 80 pi
A = 1 alpha
R = 100 rho
A = 1 alpha
D = 4 delta
O = 70 omicron
S = 200 sigma
I = 10 iota
S = 200 sigma
------------
666
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Popes titles in Latin:
VICARIUS FILII DEI (in place of the Son of God)
112 +
53 +
501 =
666
Popes titles in Latin:
Dux Cleri (Captain of the Clergy)
515 +
151 =
666
Popes titles in Latin:
LUDOVICUS (Vicar of the court)
Adds up to
666
Hebrew word for "
Roman kingdom"
ROMITH
Adds up to
666
Hebrew word for "
Roman man"
ROMITI
Adds up to
666
As can be shown above I believe the number of the beast is the number of a
man as the scriptures teach that adds up to
666 once again points to the title of the
POPE and the
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Roman numerals used in mathematics for numbers in the Roman empire is not
Gematria or
numerology (see also
Numerology.com) which uses a different counting systems with each number having a different meaning and is based in the occult.
Hope this helps
