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Originally Posted by Stephen
Didn’t they decide 666 was a misinterpretation and that the number of the beast was actually 616?
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It’s chalked up to scribal and translation error and/or different spellings of Nero/Neron. In Hebrew each letter also signifies a number, so where Nero=616 Neron=666. 616 has only been found in Revelations, on ancient Greek papyrus remnants. There are a lot of instances like this in the Bible. Like an ancient game of telephone storytelling.