One of the most contested topics in Revelation is the number of the name of the beast in Revelation 13:7. Purely intertextual interpretations have been popular among [many] writers taking a preterist, partial-preterist, or futurist view of the book...
The socio-historical context of the passage however, indicates that gematria is precisely the correct method to understand the number in question. As early as 1910, Adolf Deissmann could write “Scientific commentators are probably by this time agreed that the name to be ‘counted’ must be found by ‘gematria,’”3 citing two examples of gematria found in Pompeii (no later than 79 CE).
“Amerimnus thought upon his lady Harmonia for good. The number of her honourable name is 45 (or 1035).”4
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Author: Jonathan Burke
Keywords: Gematria, Gemetria, 666, Six six six, Six, 616, Mark of the beast, Numerology, Count the number, Counting the number, Counting, preterist, Futurist, Gamatria, Gametria, Gramatria, Grammatria, Grammatia, Grammateia, Gammatria, Numerical, Numerical letters, Hebrew letters, Value of Hebrew letters, Value of Greek letters, Numbers letters, Numerical values, Letters numbers, six one six, Nero
Bible reference(s): Revelation 13
Source: Living On The Edge (Lively Stones Publishing), pp. 24-6.
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