Fwd: Re: acrostics-what is it?

Steven Craig Miller scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Mon Jan 24 10:44:29 EST 2000


To: Tsalampouni Ekaterini,

<< Could the number 666 be regarded as an acrostic? >>

The number 666 is generally taken to be a cryptogram, gematria, and/or an 
isopsephos. FWIW ... on the wall in Pompey was found a message scrawled 
saying (something to the effect): "I love her whose number is 545." It is 
assumed that the author of this message could be fairly certain that only 
the loved one herself, and perhaps a few initiates, knew what name lay 
hidden behind the number. (See: ABD 6:54-55; and Jurgen Roloff's commentary 
on "Revelation.")

-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
FWIW: I'm neither a clergy-person, nor an academic (and I have no post-grad 
degrees).




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