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| TerryW Senior Member United States Joined 6155 days ago 370 posts - 783 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 9 of 13 08 April 2011 at 11:50pm | IP Logged | ||
Singer Dionne Warwick, who just "got fired" from Donald Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" the other week, once had an astrologer (Linda Goodman, author of "Love Signs") tell her that she should add an "E" to her name (as in "Warwicke") for numerological reasons. When she took that advice (put it on album covers, etc.) she had all kinds of bad luck happen, so she took the "E" back off. From her autobiography (see middle of page 81): D. Warwick autobiography 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 5920 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 10 of 13 09 April 2011 at 1:35am | IP Logged | ||
This is an ancient Hebrew concept called גימטריה (Gematria). In Biblical Hebrew there are no numbers, the letters double as numbers. Thus letters of any word can be added together. Ancient Greek also had Germatria thus the Bible verse: This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666. Rev 13:18. 666 in Ancient Greek is χξϛ where: χ = 600 ξ = 60 ϛ = 6 Total = 666 Some have tried to say that Nero was the Antichrist since his name in Aramaic is נרון קסר (neron qasar "nun" "resh" "waw" "nun" "qoph" "samek" "resh") thus nun = 50 resh = 200 waw = 6 nun = 50 qoph = 100 samek = 60 resh = 200 Total = 666 However this is bogus because the book of Revelation was written after Nero died. Edited by JW on 09 April 2011 at 1:37am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5809 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 11 of 13 09 April 2011 at 1:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Not only that, but a particularly well-researched translation of the Bible has a footnote saying that 666 is probably wrong, and the original was more likely 616.
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| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 5920 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 12 of 13 09 April 2011 at 2:31am | IP Logged | ||
Yes, but this is a minority variant based on a very small number of manuscripts. If you check all the English translations and translations into other languages (at least the ones I can read), all have 666. 616 only rates a footnote. Also, 666 is a very descriptive number in Biblical Numerology, 6 being the number of Man and 3 being the number of completion and entirety. Thus 666 is Man in complete and entire rebellion against God: The Antichrist. Also the Greek of Rev 13:18 reads: ἀριθμὸς γὰρ ἀνθρώπου ἐστιν arithmos gar anthropou estin which means "for (it) is the number of man" which is 6 not 1. Edited by JW on 09 April 2011 at 2:32am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6348 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 13 of 13 10 April 2011 at 1:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Obviously It was not meant to be taken literally, it
refers to any manufacturers of dairy products. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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