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Mark of the Beast
The Mark of the Beast is the sign described in Revelation 13 that authorizes buying and selling under the beast’s power and is tied to the number 666. In critical scholarship, it is usually read as coded first-century political symbolism—especially in relation to Nero, imperial imagery, and anti-Roman polemic—rather than as a prediction of modern technologies or future global conspiracies.
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“It is six hundred sixty-six. It is not six, comma, six, comma, six.”
“This number is the numerical value of somebody's name, of a person's name.”
“The beast, the number of the man, 666 is almost certainly a reference to Nero.”
“We can explain very easily how these symbols fit into a late first-century CE Greco-Roman context.”
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