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<blockquote data-quote="The Liturgist" data-source="post: 77362354" data-attributes="member: 424341"><p>Indeed. By the way, as mentioned earlier it seems highly likely that St. John was referring to Nero using 666 as a cypher, since the text of Revelation implies that it refers to a real person whom the reader ought to be able to discern, and I think the chap who started the horrific murderous and even genocidal (in that some predominantly Christian ethnic groups like Bohairic and Sahidic speaking Copts, and the Syriac/Assyrian Christians of the Levant were targeted) persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire generally qualifies as “the Beast.”</p><p></p><p>Of course the Beast is also typological, so we can regard Nero as the prototype of the genocidal murderer of Christians, the likes of Emperors Commodus and Diocletian and Constantius, Julian “the Apostate” (which I find amusing since his predecessors were already arguably apostate by virtue of their Arianism), and others, and later, the likes of Tamerlane, who killed off most of the Church of the East, and various Ottoman Sultans, and in the 20th century, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and in a way especially pernicious, Enver Hoxha, who persecuted a higher ratio of Christians than anyone else in his zeal to obliterate religion in Albania, which of course failed completely. All of these evil men have a prototype in Emperor Nero, who falsely accused the Christians of starting a fire which did great damage to Rome.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Liturgist, post: 77362354, member: 424341"] Indeed. By the way, as mentioned earlier it seems highly likely that St. John was referring to Nero using 666 as a cypher, since the text of Revelation implies that it refers to a real person whom the reader ought to be able to discern, and I think the chap who started the horrific murderous and even genocidal (in that some predominantly Christian ethnic groups like Bohairic and Sahidic speaking Copts, and the Syriac/Assyrian Christians of the Levant were targeted) persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire generally qualifies as “the Beast.” Of course the Beast is also typological, so we can regard Nero as the prototype of the genocidal murderer of Christians, the likes of Emperors Commodus and Diocletian and Constantius, Julian “the Apostate” (which I find amusing since his predecessors were already arguably apostate by virtue of their Arianism), and others, and later, the likes of Tamerlane, who killed off most of the Church of the East, and various Ottoman Sultans, and in the 20th century, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and in a way especially pernicious, Enver Hoxha, who persecuted a higher ratio of Christians than anyone else in his zeal to obliterate religion in Albania, which of course failed completely. All of these evil men have a prototype in Emperor Nero, who falsely accused the Christians of starting a fire which did great damage to Rome. [/QUOTE]
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