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The Mark of the Best

Data Over Dogma

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The Myth of Nero in the Book of Revelation

The idea here is most likely that the author of the book of Revelation is suggesting to Christians that we've got persecution coming. The image would be the coin with Nero's face on it and Nero's name on it in Greek or Latin. And so the beast, the number of the man, 666, is almost certainly a reference to Nero. But there are some other folks who read different things out of it.

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