666

In Revelation 13:18, 666 is the number of “the beast.”

"This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666."

What does this mean?

• The Romans had a tradition of making the numerical symbols in a name significant. When the Is, Vs, Xs, Cs, Ds, etc. were added up, it was supposed to have significance. The pope's crown is emblazoned with the Roman "Vicar of Christ". Add up the numerals in this title and it becomes 666;

• if you take the Greek form of the name of the Emperor Nero, the Roman emperor around the time of Revelation, and write it in Hebrew, the letters, which can also have numeric values, “add up” to—you guessed it—666!

• But my favorite is: we're carbon-based life forms. Carbon has six protons, six neutrons and six electrons--666!