Stratros

I found the following extracts here

Greek Alphabetic Numbers at the Time of the New Testament

Since the Book of Revelation, like the other twenty six
books of the New Testament, was written in Koine Greek in the first or early second century AD, we must study how numbers were represented at that time in Greek.[5]

By the time of the New Testament we need only consider the Greek alphabetic numeral system.  Although the Greeks had ways of representing numbers in the thousands and also those above ten-thousand (myriads), we will only consider how they represented numbers up to nine hundred ninety nine.

These Greeks, like us, used a decimal system but, unlike us,
they did not use a zero number[9].  Thus, although it was a
decimal system, it was not a place-value system.  Therefore more symbols were needed than just the nine (plus zero) which we use. To represent the numbers up to our 999, they needed 27 different symbols:  nine for the units 1, 2, ..., 9; nine for the tens 10, 20, ..., 90; and still another nine for the hundreds 100, 200, ..., 900.


For symbols they used the letters of the Greek alphabet.
However, an immediate problem arose since the Greek alphabet contained only 24 letters.  To fill in the missing three, they used old obsolete letters from previous alphabets and, somewhat confusingly, these were interspersed with the regular letters.

The following table show the assignments[10].

    TABLE OF NUMERICAL VALUES OF GREEK LETTERS

     1 alpha        10 iota       100 rho
     2 beta         20 kappa      200 sigma
     3 gamma        30 lambda     300 tau
     4 delta        40 mu         400 upsilon
     5 epsilon      50 nu         500 phi
     6 [digamma]    60 xi         600 chi
     7 zeta         70 omicron    700 psi
     8 eta          80 pi         800 omega
     9 theta        90 [koppa]    900 [sampi]

The digamma at 6, however, will be directly relevant for the
representation of six hundred sixty-six.  This letter also became known as stigma (note the "t") because the form of writing it looked like the ligature (writing together) of the two Greek letters sigma and tau, roughly corresponding to our s and t.  [If not done carefully, it can even look like just a sigma, which would be an error.]  For most of the rest of this study this obsolete letter pushed into service to represent the numeral for 6 will be referred to as stigma.

Thus to represent our number of interest, six hundred
sixty-six, rather than using three identical characters (666) as we do in our decimal PLACE-VALUE system, a first century Greek writer (if not spelling out the words just as we also can) would use three distinct characters (chi)(xi)(stigma)!


To summarise Stratos: the book of Book of Revelation, written in Koine Greek in the first or early second century A.D.

If they wanted to use Greek numerals to write 666, they would've used the numerals chi xi stigma.

chi xi stigma looks like: the crossed swords of islam and the bismallah on it's side.

As I've said before

600 60 6 = 666

or

  6
60
600    = 666

wally1 wrote;

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Sorry Wally

Revelation 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

Revelation 13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

polite_gandalf wrote on Aug 30^th, 2015 at 7:25pm:


You also have to flip it and remove a line, and write it in elaborate cursive that wasn't used until close to a millennium after the original was written.

Are you faaarking serious moses???

CODEX VATICANUS written in 350 A.D. using numerical symbols that had been in use since the 1st century A.D.

I'm pretty sure.

This site tells us that a first century Greek writer would have used chi xi stigma symbols to write a numerical value of 666.

So the original codex vaticanus did not contain revelations.

I don't have a problem with that.

That does not mean that John never disclosed the prophecies in the 1st century A.D. .

I have never heard of anyone doubting the authenticity of the Book Of Revelation.

666 is accepted by 1.5 billion Christians as a bona fide number.

I doubt that the innumerable scholars who have genuinely tried to keep the bible as we know it as close to the original as is humanly possible, would have missed a mistake which quoted the wrong number.

I can't see how the papyrus 115 is definitely correct and all other versions are wrong, it just doesn't add up.