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Here is where wisdom is needed. Let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. [A number on a human being.] His number is 666 (six hundred and sixty-six). [The word for "calculate" is the same word used in Luke 14:28 where it is used to "calculate" the cost of a building. The method of calculation used is addition. The Hebrew and Greek letters also represent a numerical value. The first nine letters of the alphabet correspond to the numbers 1-9. The tenth letter corresponds to the number 10, the nineteenth to the number 100, and so on. By adding up the numerical value of a name or word, you get a numerical value. This form of numerology was well known at the time and is called gematria. Before business deals and marriages, people would compare the numerical values of their names, and if they were the same, it brought good luck. In the Italian city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, someone had written on the wall: "I love the one whose number is 545." The numerical value of the name Jesus, in Greek Iesous, is: 10 + 8 + 200 + 70 + 400 + 200 = 888. Many have speculated on what the number 666 stands for. The numerical value of "Emperor Nero," which in Hebrew is Neron Kesar, is 666. That this was an early interpretation is confirmed by the fact that when translated into Latin, the numerical value becomes 616, a combination of digits that is also found as a text variant in an early manuscript. Some have drawn the connection that www would correspond to 666 (since the numerical value of the Hebrew letter vav is 6), but this does not follow the normal gematric method of summing the letters, since the numerical value of www is 18. The phrase "hand and forehead" is also clearly recognizable from Deut. 6:8, where Moses urges the people to bind the words he has just spoken on their hands and foreheads. The prayer that Moses prays begins in verse 4 with the words "Hear, O Israel." In Hebrew, the word for "hear" is shema, and therefore the prayer is called Shema. Every morning and evening, Jews throughout the ages have recited this prayer. The Shema is the Jewish creed: "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. These words that I command you today shall be upon your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Orthodox Jude interpret Moses' commandment literally and therefore have two small black leather capsules, called "tefillin," which contain parchment scrolls with verses from the Torah. The two capsules are called shel rosh and shel jad. Every weekday before morning prayers, one is attached to the arm with a leather strap and the other above the forehead. Regardless of whether Deut. 6:8 is interpreted literally or metaphorically, it is about who or what controls one's consciousness and actions, who or what is one's authority, who or what one serves and follows. Here in Revelation, the beast forces people to give their loyalty to him in a creed that can be said to be an "anti-shema."]
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