THE NUMBER AND THE BEAST.
Sir,-" Thid’s " mention in the recent article of a curious interpretation of Chapter 13, Book of Revelation, recalls to my mind an interpretation of the same Bible passage made some years ago during the Great War of 1914-18. The formula in this case is to number each letter of the alphabet as indicated in " Thid’s" article except that the starting number for A is one. Germany’s leader in those days was the
Kaiser. After the number representing each letter in the word Kaiser add the number six, and add each of the numbers as follows: 116 A 16 I 96 Ss 196 E 56 R 186 -- KAISER = _ 666 The results shown above and in " Thid’s" formuia are surely strange-" WHO’S NEXT?" (Napier).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 81, 10 January 1941, Page 4
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