ChatterBank1 min ago
Barcode thought
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"No-one could buy or sell unless he had this mark, that is the beast's name or the number that stands for his name".
I read this in the post by naomi24 and was quite shocked, as in work only the other day, we were talking about how cheques were no longer valid as a method of payment in some shops. I then piped up that maybe one day we'd all have a barcode tatoo on our wrist and just swipe our hand over a unit, which would then remove the money from our account, thereby dispensing with cash/credit cards altogether!
Isn't that spooky? Don't you also think that it may one day become a reality ?
I read this in the post by naomi24 and was quite shocked, as in work only the other day, we were talking about how cheques were no longer valid as a method of payment in some shops. I then piped up that maybe one day we'd all have a barcode tatoo on our wrist and just swipe our hand over a unit, which would then remove the money from our account, thereby dispensing with cash/credit cards altogether!
Isn't that spooky? Don't you also think that it may one day become a reality ?
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Found this. May be rubbish, but I found it interesting...
"When Nero Caesar's name is transliterated into Hebrew, which a first-century Jew would probably have done, he would have gotten Neron Kesar or simply nrwn qsr, since Hebrew has no letters to represent vowels. �It has been documented by archaeological finds that a first century Hebrew spelling of Nero's name provides us with precisely the value of 666. Jastrow's lexicon of the Talmud contains this very spelling.�5 When we take the letters of Nero's name and spell them in Hebrew, we get the following numeric values: n=50, r=200, w=6, n=50, q=100, s=60, r=200 = 666. �Every Jewish reader, of course, saw that the Beast was a symbol of Nero. And both Jews and Christians regarded Nero as also having close affinities with the serpent or dragon. . . . The Apostle writing as a Hebrew, was evidently thinking as a Hebrew. . . . Accordingly, the Jewish Christian would have tried the name as he thought of the name�that is in Hebrew letters. And the moment that he did this the secret stood revealed. No Jew ever thought of Nero except as �Neron Kesar.��6
The fragment supports the reading of some Greek New Testament manuscripts that read 616 instead of 666. Why would someone making a copy of the Revelation scroll make such a number change? �Perhaps the change was intentional, seeing that the Greek form Neron Caesar written in Hebrew characters (nrwn qsr) is equivalent to 666, whereas the Latin form Nero Caesar (nrw qsr) is equivalent to 616.� A Latin copyist might have thought that 666 was an error because Nero Caesar did not add up to 666 when transliterated into Latin. He then changed 666 to 616 to conform to the Latin rendering since it was generally accepted that Nero was the Beast. In either case, a Hebrew transliteration nets 666, while a Latin spelling nets 616. Nero was the �man� and either 666 or 616 was his number."
"When Nero Caesar's name is transliterated into Hebrew, which a first-century Jew would probably have done, he would have gotten Neron Kesar or simply nrwn qsr, since Hebrew has no letters to represent vowels. �It has been documented by archaeological finds that a first century Hebrew spelling of Nero's name provides us with precisely the value of 666. Jastrow's lexicon of the Talmud contains this very spelling.�5 When we take the letters of Nero's name and spell them in Hebrew, we get the following numeric values: n=50, r=200, w=6, n=50, q=100, s=60, r=200 = 666. �Every Jewish reader, of course, saw that the Beast was a symbol of Nero. And both Jews and Christians regarded Nero as also having close affinities with the serpent or dragon. . . . The Apostle writing as a Hebrew, was evidently thinking as a Hebrew. . . . Accordingly, the Jewish Christian would have tried the name as he thought of the name�that is in Hebrew letters. And the moment that he did this the secret stood revealed. No Jew ever thought of Nero except as �Neron Kesar.��6
The fragment supports the reading of some Greek New Testament manuscripts that read 616 instead of 666. Why would someone making a copy of the Revelation scroll make such a number change? �Perhaps the change was intentional, seeing that the Greek form Neron Caesar written in Hebrew characters (nrwn qsr) is equivalent to 666, whereas the Latin form Nero Caesar (nrw qsr) is equivalent to 616.� A Latin copyist might have thought that 666 was an error because Nero Caesar did not add up to 666 when transliterated into Latin. He then changed 666 to 616 to conform to the Latin rendering since it was generally accepted that Nero was the Beast. In either case, a Hebrew transliteration nets 666, while a Latin spelling nets 616. Nero was the �man� and either 666 or 616 was his number."
