New Traits show the Mark of the Beast?
616 is the actual number of the beast. 666 is an archaic mistranslation, just fyi.
In the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, which is the earliest known copy of Revelation, the number given is 616. In other copies, it’s 666. Which one is correct?
Here are some facts to consider, which require a few minutes of thought and research and therefore are far beyond the comprehension of most newspaper journalists.
1. The Old Testament mentions 666 three times.
In Revelation, most of what we find is a recapitulation or expansion on ideas first introduced in the Old Testament. The number 666 appears three times there, but the number 616 appears nowhere in the Old Testament.
2. This is not news.
Irenaeus was alive in the 2nd century e.v. and he mentioned that he had found this copying error in some copies of Revelation. It turns out that 616 is the ancient equivalent of a typo, which has been known for more than 1800 years.
The kicker is, Irenaeus wrote about this typo before the manuscript in question was found… That’s right, about a hundred years before the existence of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, which is the only evidence used to support the claim that the number is 616.
Cool copy pasta. Not sure I’d place much stock in the blog you found that on.
Cool copy pasta. Not sure I’d place much stock in the blog you found that on.
That’s better. Of course, Hebrew is an irrelevant language that no one cares about so the Latin thing is right.
That’s better. Of course, Hebrew is an irrelevant language that no one cares about so the Latin thing is right.
The spoken languages among the Jews of that period was Hebrew.
The spoken languages among the Jews of that period was Hebrew.
You got proof of that?
The spoken languages among the Jews of that period was Hebrew.
You got proof of that?
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27587230
“Hebrew was the language of scholars and the scriptures.”
“It’s unlikely Jesus would have known Latin beyond a few words, says Jonathan Katz, stipendiary lecturer in Classics at Oxford University.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language
“The Christian New Testament contains some clearly Aramaic place names and quotes.32 Although the language of such Semitic glosses (and in general the language spoken by Jews in scenes from the New Testament) is usually referred to as “Hebrew”/“Jewish” in the text,"
" it has been argued that Hebrew, rather than Aramaic or Koine Greek, lay behind the composition of the Gospel of Matthew."