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To: Jaysun

It depends on translation

A lot of English bibles are written by adding the benefit of calculating the appropriate Greek values.

You're reading a translated version.


7 posted on 05/08/2005 7:49:54 PM PDT by Crazieman (If Con is the opposite of Pro, what is the opposite of Progress?)
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To: Crazieman
It depends on translation. A lot of English bibles are written by adding the benefit of calculating the appropriate Greek values. You're reading a translated version.

The same holds true whatever the translation.

In Hebrew:




In Greek:


Chi Xi Stigma = 666


Chi Lota stigma = 616
11 posted on 05/08/2005 8:39:04 PM PDT by Jaysun (The road to despotism is paved with "fairness")
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To: Crazieman

"A lot of English bibles are written by adding the benefit of calculating the appropriate Greek values.

You're reading a translated version."

We all read translated versions. This one is the oldest known. We won't know until we see it in Aramaic.


19 posted on 07/02/2005 10:08:20 AM PDT by followerofchrist
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