Excuse my French, but uh...
1.) I think that people are obsessed with the number 6-6-6 because it's easy to remember or teens think it sounds cool or something.
2.) I think it is used in movies and the media just to increase income.
Anyway, researchers have found that the infamous 6-6-6 may actually be 6-1-6.
Fragment from Book of Revelation mentions 616 in the third line – chi, iota, sigma (courtesy Egypt Exploration Society)
In the King James Version of the Bible, the well-known verse of Revelation 13:18 reads:
"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 threescore and six."
While many Bible have footnotes saying the number translated from the original Greek could be 616, experts say new photographic evidence of an ancient fragment of papyrus from Revelation indeed indicates the number is indeed 616, instead of 666.
2007-03-08
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