“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.” Helen Keller

“Oops, wrong number? “

In the King James Version of the Bible, the well-known verse of Revelation 13:18 reads:

“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.” However, a newly discovered fragment from the Book of Revelation courtesy Egypt Exploration Society mentions 616 in the third line – chi, iota, sigma.

Bible scholars have footnotes saying the number translated from the original Greek could be 616 and in light of the new evidence experts now concur that the new photographic evidence of an ancient fragment of papyrus from Revelation indeed indicates the number is indeed 616, instead of 666.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast

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