DCLXVI

[dslc1000]

Just to point out that the no. 666 is actually DCLXVI in roman numerals, and that D,C,L,X,V and I, in turn, are the first six symbols in the roman numerical system in reverse order (i.e. I, V, X, L, C and D backwards). It's like us writing 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0, and then someone coming along to add them all up to get 45!

Although John wrote the book in Greek, I wonder if any one can tell me if he used the Roman system for numbers, as (…historians feel free to correct me…), although the Greeks did have their own numeral system for a while, they were under Roman rule at John's time (Arabic/Indian numerals weren't in use in that region until centuries later).

Perhaps its not the number itself that's significant, but the fact that it can be represented by numbers. And what can be represented by numbers? Wealth of course, in the form of money!
'No one might be able to buy or sell unless they had the mark of the beast (...non-monetary wealth...) or the number corresponding to his name (...monetary wealth...).' (Rev 13.17)

Someone has claimed to me that the number was written as χξς
I have a copy of 13:18 in the Greek myself:
w!^de h! sofía e?stín: o! é?xwn noûn pshfisátw tòn a?riðmòn toû ðhríou,
a?riðmòs gàr a?nðrw'pou e?stín: kaì o! a?riðmòs au?toû e!ksakósioi e!ksh'konta
é!ks
Presumably this version, which I got over the Internet, is a reconstruction by scholars which involved a little bit of guess work. Can anyone tell me which of these characters is supposed to represent "666"? There's no χξς for example.
Thanks. Please tell me your opinion on what I've said, and express your own opinions.

 

[UberLutheran]

...was CCCXXXIV less than M

And I've also thought that Xians waste an AWFUL lot of time trying to figure out who "666" stands for!

Example: "I'm sorry that you're hungry, and your children haven't eaten in two days, and you're about to be evicted from your apartment in mid-January -- but I've just GOT to figure out if I add up the first letters of John Kerry's first name, and multiply it by the sum of the letters of his last name, will that equal 666 -- in which case it's surely a sign from Heaven that we should vote for George Bush!"*

(Which is not to imply that you are wasting time: actually, yours is one of the better -- and more interesting -- observations on "666" I've seen in awhile.)

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* It doesn't. The letters of John Kerry's first name add up to 47; the letters of his last name add up to 77; the sum is 3619 which factors out to 7 times 11 times 47.

If you divide 47 by 77, you end up with 0.61038961, which is reasonably close to the Golden Mean (the ratio of a term in the Fibonacci series divided by the next successive term in the series, which approaches .6180339887499...). Close, but -- no cigar.

 

[Biarien]

It doesn't. The letters of John Kerry's first name add up to 47; the letters of his last name add up to 77; the sum is 3619 which factors out to 7 times 11 times 47.

If you divide 47 by 77, you end up with 0.61038961, which is reasonably close to the Golden Mean (the ratio of a term in the Fibonacci series divided by the next successive term in the series, which approaches .6180339887499...). Close, but -- no cigar.

LOL.

 

[Serapha]

Someone has claimed to me that the number was written as χξς
I have a copy of 13:18 in the Greek myself:
w!^de h! sofía e?stín: o! é?xwn noûn pshfisátw tòn a?riðmòn toû ðhríou,
a?riðmòs gàr a?nðrw'pou e?stín: kaì o! a?riðmòs au?toû e!ksakósioi e!ksh'konta
é!ks
Presumably this version, which I got over the Internet, is a reconstruction by scholars which involved a little bit of guess work. Can anyone tell me which of these characters is supposed to represent "666"? There's no χξς for example.
Thanks. Please tell me your opinion on what I've said, and express your own opinions.

Hi there!




Welcome to the forums...


The χξς is found in the textus receptus (chi xi stigma)



~serapha~

 

[dslc1000]

Well,
I can assure you UberLutheran, that my studies usually have more practical relevance. I haven't devoted much time to this issue in all honesty. It just occurred to me one day that perhaps a worthy route in trying to unravel the mystery would be to discern what it is the author actually wrote. If it wasn't for some people's claims that 666 was represented as χξς, I would have been almost certain that the author would have written DCLXVI. But anyway...
Thanks for your comments. And, like yourself, I also find the notion that it represents John Kerry absurd.
Thanks to you also Serapha