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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
VERSE 18. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath

understanding count the number of the beast:

for it is the number of a man; and his number

is Six hundred threescore and six.

The Number of his Name. — The number of

the beast, says the prophecy, “is the number of

a man; and his number is Six hundred

threescore and six” (666). This number, some

attempt to find in the word Lateinos, the

“Latin” kingdom. Thus they make, by what

rule we do not understand, L stand for 30; A,

for 1; T, for 300; E, for 5; I, for 10; N, for 50; O,

for 70; and S, for 200; which numbers, added

together, make 666. Deriving the number

from the name in this manner, must be

regarded as rather conjectural than

otherwise, seeing that names making just that

number can be found to almost any extent. We