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From what I can tell, the earliest manuscript of Revelation 13:18 (the typical source of "666" being evil) originates from the third century CE in Egypt [1], in
by piperswe 4y ago
From what I can tell, the earliest manuscript of Revelation 13:18 (the typical source of "666" being evil) originates from the third century CE in Egypt [1], instead saying "616" is the mark of the beast and using the Greek numerals. The first example of the earliest ancestor to the modern numeral "6" appears in inscriptions in India dating to the same period [2]. I would expect there is no relationship between Revelation and the modern numeral for 6.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_115 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_115
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edicts_of_Ashoka#Ancestor_of_the_Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edicts_of_Ashoka#Ancestor_of_t...