This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... 60 ] 200 = 666.s 1 I am not sure that a Jew would uot have tried Hebrew letters at once. A Talmndic scholar wrote to tell me that my number for Rome supra, p. 220) was wrong, because he had tried it in Hebrew letters. It had not occurred to him to try it in Greek letters! 2 See the startling Hebraism in the Greek of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... 60 ] 200 = 666.s 1 I am not sure that a Jew would uot have tried Hebrew letters at once. A Talmndic scholar wrote to tell me that my number for Rome supra, p. 220) was wrong, because he had tried it in Hebrew letters. It had not occurred to him to try it in Greek letters! 2 See the startling Hebraism in the Greek of Rev. i. 4, and comp. Rev. ix. 11; xvi. 16. 3 The name was so written in Jewish inscriptions. See Ewald, Die Johann. Schriften, ii. 203; Buxtorf. Lex. Rabbin, s. v. The name Ciesarea appears in the Talmnd as pep. Renan mentions the remarkable fact that the name for the Antichrist in Armenian is Keren (ii. 23). Ewald GEMATRIA. 297 Jewish Christians were familiar with enigmas of this kind. They occur even in the ancient Prophets after the days of Jeremiah, and are found in the Old Testament Scriptures.1 The Jewish Christians could not have hesitated for a moment in the conclusion that in the Hebrew name of Nero the solution of the riddle stood revealed. The Jews were remarkable for reticence, and men are specially liable to keep their secrets to themselves when they involve matters of life and death. Many methods and secrets of Rabbinic exegesis, though of great value, have remained unrevealed by Jews to Christians, simply because the jealous exclusiveness and haughty prejudice of that singular race--feelings which, it must be confessed, have been due in no small degree to the brutality of their enemies--makes them indifferent to the religious views of others. It is, therefore, by no means remarkable that the Asiatic Judaists, who first read St. John's Apocalypse, did not betray what they must have recognised to be the name which exactly corresponded with the number of the Beast. They might be pardoned if they were reluctant to place their lives a...
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