XXVIII.
Then that abominable one will send his commands
throughout every government by the hand at once of demons and of
visible men, who shall say, “A mighty king has arisen upon the
earth; come ye all to worship him; come ye all to see the strength of
his kingdom: for, behold, he will give you corn; and he will
bestow upon you wine, and great riches, and lofty honours. For
the whole earth and sea obeys his command. Come ye all to
him.” And by reason of the scarcity of food, all will go to
him and worship him; and he will put his mark on their right hand and
on their forehead, that no one may put the sign of the honourable cross
upon his forehead with his right hand; but his hand is bound. And
from that time he shall not have power to seal any one of his members,
but he shall be attached to the deceiver, and shall serve him; and in
him there is no repentance. But such an one is lost at once to
God and to men, and the deceiver will give them scanty food by reason
of his abominable seal. And his seal upon the forehead and upon
the right hand is the number, “Six hundred threescore and
six.”1960
And I have
an opinion as to this number, though I do not know the matter for
certain; for many names have been found in this number when it is
expressed in writing.
1961
Still we say that perhaps the
scription of this same seal will give us the word
I
deny.
1962
| 1962
ἀρνοῦμαι. But the
letters of the word ἀρνοῦμαι in their
numerical value will not give the number 666 unless it is written
ἀρνοῦμε. See Haymo on
the Apocalypse, book iv. |
For even
in recent days, by means of his
ministers—that is to say, the
idolaters—that
bitter adversary took up the word
deny,
when the lawless pressed upon the witnesses of Christ, with the
adjuration, “Deny thy God, the crucified One.”
1963
| 1963 The
text is in confusion: ἐπειδὴ καὶ
πρώην διὰ τῶν
ὑπηρετῶν
αὐτοῦ ὁ
ἀντίδικος
ἐχθρὸς, ἢ
γοῦν τῶν
εἰδωλολατρῶν,
τοῖς μάρτυσι
τοῦ Χριστοῦ
προέτρεπον
οἱ ἄνομοι, etc. |
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