Not so cherished number plates

Posted on 14/07/2018 00:03 by RGR2

We may have been labouring under a misapprehension. The following comes from some published research but who knows for sure?

666 is generally believed to have been the original Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible.[4] In 2005, however, a fragment of papyrus 115 was revealed, containing the earliest known version of that part of the Book of Revelation discussing the Number of the Beast. It gave the number as 616, suggesting that this may have been the original.[2] One possible explanation for the two different numbers is that they reflect two different spellings of Emperor Nero/Neron's name, for which (according to this theory) this number is believed to be a code.[5][6] However, other scholars state that the number cannot represent Nero.[7]