It gave the beast's number as 616 ( χις). Has the number of the beast as χιϛ, 616.Īround 2005, a fragment from Papyrus 115, taken from the Oxyrhynchus site, was discovered at the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum. įragment from Papyrus 115 (P115) of Revelation in the 66th vol. In the 380s, correcting the existing Latin-language version of the New Testament (commonly referred to as the Vetus Latina), Jerome retained '666'. Irenaeus knew about the 616 reading, but did not adopt it ( Haer. Souter in the Journal of Theology, SE, April 1913), and in an ancient Armenian version (ed. Revelation 13:18 states that if one is wise and has an understanding to count the number of the beast, which is also the number of a man, the number comes to 666.Īlthough Irenaeus (2nd century AD) affirmed the number to be 666 and reported several scribal errors of the number, theologians have doubts about the traditional reading because of the appearance of the figure 616 in the Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus ( C Paris-one of the four great uncial codices), as well as in the Latin version of Tyconius ( DCXVI, ed. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.' ' 17And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. In several editions of the Greek Bible, the number is represented by the final three words, ἑξακόσιοι ἑξήκοντα ἕξ, hexakósioi hexēkonta héx, meaning 'six hundred sixty-six': Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man and his number is 666.' Possible translations include 'to count', 'to reckon' and also 'to vote' or 'to decide'. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast.' where the peculiar Greek word ψηφισάτω ( psephisato) is used.

Several translations have been interpreted for the meaning of the phrase 'Here is Wisdom. The number of the beast is described in Revelation 13:15–18.

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