Posted on 04/28/2005 12:55:52 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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"the Beast" of Revelations isn't the usual 666, but 616.
Maybe that's why they were thrown in the dump.
One could wonder if this may give someone a chance to rewrite the Bible, perhaps in a more "modern" light.
Maybe they'll find another version of the Koran in there.
It needs to be rewritten.
Hehee.
regards,
bump
A myth. There aren't any "lost Christian gospels."
God moved Christ's apostles and their attendants to record and to finish His word (John 16:12-13; 1 Corinthians 13:8-10; Hebrews 1:1-2; 2:1-4). The church received and acknowledged that Word.
If the apostles didn't author or sponsor it, and the church didn't acknowledge it, at best it may be a peripheral and helpful writing (like Augustine's Confessions, or Calvin's Institutes), but it isn't a "Christian gospel" -- as if it's fundamentally going to change the image of Jesus we have from the existing, abundantly-attested records.
Dan
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Didn't some of the translations have the 666 as 616 anyway? I remember seeing that somewhere before.
These are garbage dumps, not library caches. If the mss were in the garbage, there must have been a good reason. Before the days of Gutenberg and automated binderies, scrolls were not trashed like today's paperbacks.
The latest volume includes details of fragments showing third- and fourth-century versions of the Book of Revelations.
Even the greenest of writers should have known that there is no such book as "Revelations." So much for the credibility of any aspect of this article.
Intriguingly, the number assigned to "the Beast" of Revelations isn't the usual 666, but 616.
Equally revealing is the author's ignorance of the variant "616," which is no recent discovery.
You are correct. The Jerusalem Bible (1966) notes the variant in a footnote. I suspect contemporary knowledge of the variant dates back at least to the 19th century but, since the scrolls are much older than that, the knowledge of the variant is actually as old as the variant itself.
Ack! I'm working on my blog on this, and I'm going to say some of the same things!
8^P
Dan
Thanks.
If I remember right, 616 and 666 had similar meanings, and had to do with Nero Ceaser.
I cannot help but to admire your magnificent mind which employs such elegant cold-steel logic in the analysis of tabloid trash posing as breaking news.
ahem..
Yes, well, whenever my wife and I tag up like that on something, one will say "Great minds....", and the other will respond, "Fools seldom...."
Dan
PS -- for the younger, that's shorthand for "Great minds think alike," and "Fools seldom differ."
It must be that one is the number on his front gate, the other on his back gate. : )
Not necessarily. I've seen Christian writers call it "Revelations." Hell, half the churchgoers at my workplace pronounce it in that manner.
That explains the frevos.
Your workplace?
half the churchgoers at my workplace pronounce it in that manner.
Two people at your workplace? One a JW?
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