[B-Greek] Textual question (WAS: Rev 13:18)

George F. Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Tue Jul 6 21:15:53 EDT 2004


On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:03:47 -0700 "Dan and/or Nancy Storm"
<danstorm at comcast.net> writes:
> I have read that in the text of Revelation 13:18, the oldest 
> manuscripts do not spell out the number 666, but simply have three 
> Greek letters: CXS. My UBS v.2 does not support this.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> D. Anthony Storm
> danstorm at comcast.net
> ---

That seems to be incorrect.  It appears that the earlier mss spell out
the numbers.  It is largely the minuscules, which are later, which use
the alpha characters as numbers.

george
gfsomsel



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