Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: !daly@ddtisvr.uucp (Kathy Daly) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: The Number 666 in Revelation Message-ID: Date: 17 Apr 91 05:07:52 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: DuPont Design Technologies Group Lines: 23 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Can I follow up on my own post? > >"The name of the beast is a number, and the number of the beast is 666." I looked thru all my bibles at home and couldn't find the verse ever worded like that. I have no idea why I remember the phrase that way. So I might now be more receptive to the idea of the number being something to calculate for a name in code. But what about the author saying 'let him who has wisdom figure it out...' Did the author himself perhaps not understand? I still would like to see the *original* hard-copy of the text. Maybe the way in which the actual characters were written (thick,thin,sized) is the real clue. (And maybe there's doodles in the margin :-). -- Kathy E.F.Daly -- "A bad .signature is better than no .signature at all" (technically) Camex,Inc. pays me, but I work for DuPont Design Technologies . . and neither is liable nor responsible for anything I say or do here. ## under construction ## hard hat required ## no loitering or spitting ## [You were right the first time. Take a look at Rev 13:17-18. 17 talks about the number of its name, and 18 says it is the number of a person. --clh]