Number of the Beast undergoes deflation
May. 4th, 2005 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonWell heck. Just when you think there's some constant in the universe, something else fundamental changes:
Beast's real mark devalued to '616'
What can you depend on if not the infallibility of the Bible? Gosh.
In all seriousness, this is just one among what are sure to be many fascinating discoveries from this exciting new source of classical information.
And it makes you wonder how many more interesting mistranslations there are to be found... ;>
Beast's real mark devalued to '616'
What can you depend on if not the infallibility of the Bible? Gosh.
In all seriousness, this is just one among what are sure to be many fascinating discoveries from this exciting new source of classical information.
And it makes you wonder how many more interesting mistranslations there are to be found... ;>
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Date: 2005-05-04 08:48 pm (UTC)LOL that was my first thought, too!
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Date: 2005-05-04 09:10 pm (UTC)And yeah, Revelations is one weird text, but a lot of it was apparantly intended to refer to current events when it was written, which makes the latter-day convolutions of folks trying to force-fit the text to modern day circumstances all the more silly.