[quote]616 ("six hundred and sixteen", or "six hundred sixteen" in American English) is believed by some to have been the original Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible. Different early versions of the Book of Revelation gave different numbers, and 666 had been widely accepted as the original number. In 2005, however, a fragment of papyrus was revealed, containing the earliest known version of that part of the Book of Revelation discussing the Number of the Beast. It gave the number as 616, suggesting that this may have been the original. [1] This caused Peter Sagal on the USA's National Public Radio program Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! to quip that Hell must be in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as Grand Rapids' area code is 616. (There is a Hell, Michigan, but its area code is 734.)[/quote]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/616_(number) i actually found the original article from the "endtime" magazine, but couldn't find the link to it. but this isn't half bad. i even have the link to a picture of it though: http://www.greatdreams.com/sacred/beast616.jpg yeah, i know. its in greek. the number where its written is XIC

Neither It is not a number. If you look at the codex what you will see in place of greek numbers is the arabic word for allah. Those who translated it did the best they could but where not in understanding of what was written and is why you get two different numbers. They wrote the closest thing they could find in greek to what they were seeing in arabic.

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