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The Koine Greek that Christian scripture was composed in used the Miletus number system not the Roman number system. Like the Roman system, the Miletus system used letters (Greek) to repesent numbers. This system required 27 letters to stand for numbers, Nine letters were used to represent the numbers 1, 2, 3, .... 8, 9; another nine were used for 10, 20, 30, .... 80, 90; nine more were used for 100, 200, 300, ... 800, 900. So the number 666 would consist of the three letters (chi, xi and vau) representing 600 + 60 + 6 not the DCLXVI as it would be in the Roman or Latin system. There has been much conjecture on the precise meaning of the number 666. Much is made of numerology in which words are given mystical meanings by assigning numbers to the letters. Some claim it refers to Caesar Nero (AD54 – 68) who was the first Roman emperor to seriously persecute the Christians while others suggest it was Caesar Domitian (AD81- 96) who was the emperor at the time Revelation was written. Domitian was worse than Nero as far as persecutions were concerned and he was widely believed at the time to have been a reincarnation of Nero. It could hardly represent the Roman Catholic Church or the Papacy since these institutions were centuries from being formalised. It is likely the 666 refers to the Roman Empire in some way. Incidently some people have made much of the three sixes in 666. However, 666 is a place value decimal system with Arabic numerals both of which were centuries in the future. In the Miletus system there was only the one 6. It is also interesting to note that in a few ancient manuscripts the number is 616 not 666.
Anyone who attempts to use three sixes as a basis of their numerology is actually blowing smoke since in scripture there is only one six in the number. Go ahead and be as inventive as you wish about three sixes because in the end it is meaningless.
By the way, our number of interest in binary is 1010011010. Not a single six there at all. Knock yourself out in binary.
Anyone who attempts to use three sixes as a basis of their numerology is actually blowing smoke since in scripture there is only one six in the number. Go ahead and be as inventive as you wish about three sixes because in the end it is meaningless.
By the way, our number of interest in binary is 1010011010. Not a single six there at all. Knock yourself out in binary.
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