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Message:: [QUOTE="silverbullion, post: 2130469, member: 57234"]The Beast mentioned in Revelations was Nero Caesar or the "Beast of Rome". E.g. when the name Nero Caesar is written in Hebrew the Hebrew letters possess the numerical value of 666. At the time of Nero, there was a common poem that was posted throughout Rome on city walls as graffiti. Suetonius relates this poem to us: Count the numerical values Of the letters in Nero's name, And in 'murdered his own mother': You will find their sum is the same. The Greek numerical representation of the Greek Nero and of the Greek murdered his own mother both equal 1005. Such numerical games were common in the ancient world, as there were no digits to represent numbers, but the letters served both purposes. On the walls of Pompeii, Deissmann found the scribbling "I love her whose number is 545". So there was no mystery in counting the letters of Nero's name as a number, but the mystery lie only in doing so in the Hebrew numerical representation.[/QUOTE]