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<blockquote data-quote="The Liturgist" data-source="post: 77359008" data-attributes="member: 424341"><p>Yes, I personally suspect it was a cypher for Nero the last of the Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, since of all possible candidates this one seems the most plausible, and St. John seems to strongly indicate that the dilligent reader should be able to work it out, and thus using Jewish numerology in a Greek text intended for a mixed Greco-Roman and Judaic audience strikes me as clever, because it left St. John with plausible deniability. Which was important because I am not sure if Emperor Trajan with his more relaxed attitude to Christianity was already in power by the time St. John was released from his exile to Patmos, and Emperor Trajan’s predecessors, especially Emperor Titus, were among the worst pre-Third Century persecutors of Christianity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Liturgist, post: 77359008, member: 424341"] Yes, I personally suspect it was a cypher for Nero the last of the Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, since of all possible candidates this one seems the most plausible, and St. John seems to strongly indicate that the dilligent reader should be able to work it out, and thus using Jewish numerology in a Greek text intended for a mixed Greco-Roman and Judaic audience strikes me as clever, because it left St. John with plausible deniability. Which was important because I am not sure if Emperor Trajan with his more relaxed attitude to Christianity was already in power by the time St. John was released from his exile to Patmos, and Emperor Trajan’s predecessors, especially Emperor Titus, were among the worst pre-Third Century persecutors of Christianity. [/QUOTE]
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