Roman, and no signifying Mystery (μvs) both which words produce the Number 666, according to the numerical value of the Hebrew Letters of which they are composed; but as ' ROMAN' and MYSTERY' are not Names of Men, so they must both be rejected on that account, according to the Text of St. John ; "The Name of the Beast, or the Number of his Name " "is the Number of a Man." Moreover: the Name of the Man must not be sought after in the Hebrew Language, but in the Language in which St. John wrote his Book of the Revelation, which was GREEK, and the Number xs', which is Greek, must be counted according to the Mode of Greek calculations which existed in St. John's time, of which many examples have been adduced. How far the Hebrew word " may serve for identifying the Kingdom of the 'ROMAN' Ecclesiastical Beast, is another point; but it is certain that it is not the NAME of a MAN, and, therefore, the Number 666 cannot be established without it be accompanied with some special proper Name. Besides which it is so palpably absurd to have a Greek Number given us, as xέs', and then to turn to the Hebrew Language to explain it. If it were a Hebrew Number which was given us by St. John, as DD, then a Hebrew Name would have sufficed for the interpretation; but a Greek Number must have a Greek Name, as antecedent and consequent. If any two Names of Men could be found in the same Language in every respect applicable to the "Mark," "Name," and " Number of the Beast," it would be an argument why twenty

or fifty Names might be found for the same purpose; but there is only one Name of a Man which can fully and satisfactorily unfold the Enigma, whosoever may be the discoverer of it, and it must be in 1GREEK not in Hebrew (characters,) as Irenæus testifies.

I have merely mentioned the Names of Croly Vitringa... Faber... Dr. Burton... Calmet. Dean Woodhouse... Professor Lee ... Potter.. and Daubuz in this part of my Work, with an intent to show that in the very nature of their Opinions and Confessions the subject of the Number 666 was not incontrovertibly settled, although noticed and written upon by them, and also to demonstrate, that as long as any one additional writer of fair pretensions can be allowed space enough to conjecture some new name, in any Language which is not Greek, with any tolerable hope of success; or, invalidate the Number xs' by the production of an opposite one, or the Mode of calculating it by some Cabbalistic art of the Square or Cube Root: so long the Number of the Man, which primâ facie, imports the Name of the Man, cannot be declared by any to rest beyond the reach of future disputation. If then what Irenæus wrote conjecturally in the second Century, be not enough to convince us of the certainty of the Name LATEINOS in the nineteenth, (and his Testimony has been corroborated again and again by subsequent writers in every age,) vain must be the attempt of any Modern Writer to begin the Task; for the MAN,

1 Irenæ. lib. V. cap. xxx. p. 447. edit. Grabe. Oxon. 1702. and chap. xiv. p. 167. line 14, &c. of this work.

(whose enigmatical Appellative Name is by the hypothesis Aarêvos, and his Number xks' or 666,) began his ecclesiastical Reign, at Rome, A. D. 533, and, consequently, the "1260 Days" of Years expired A. D. 1792. Those, therefore, who upon existing evidence will not acknowledge the Name Aarêivos to be the true Appellative of the Numbered Beast, may as reasonably Question the Fact whether the City of Jerusalem be really destroyed, or not, even though the EVENT has verified the prediction. It would, I repeat, be equally inconsistent to Question the fact whether the PAPAL-ANTICHRIST, who is "the Man of Sin," revealed," be actually revealed at Rome, or not, although a stream of concurrent Testimony, beginning with Christ, St. Paul, and St. John, and followed by Irenæus, has flowed down to us in the course of those remarkable Events which constitute the fulfilment of the prediction, according to the time appointed. Surely, then, we may with the same certainty look for the destruction of that Papal-City, ROME, in which the Papists glory so much, as the Apostles awaited the destruction of Jerusalem, or any other predicted Event.

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It is most grievous to notice the numerous speculative errors which have from time to time arisen, and been most extensively circulated through the medium of men of Talent, concerning the Number 666, causing the almost extinction of the ORTHONUMBER. and GREEK MODE of CALCULATION, if we suffer ourselves to be distracted by the conflicting testimony of Faber... Wrang

GRAPHY.. NAME

Bossuet, for the ORTHOGRAPHY: of Calmet . . . Dr. Burton . . . and Croly, for the NAME: of Professor Lee and Archbishop Laud, for the NUMBER; and of Dean Woodhouse . . . Potter ... Daubuz and others, for the MODE OF CALCULATION. But happily we are not bound by their opinions, being exhorted by St. Paul to " prove all things," (that is, not to take them upon trust without sufficient examination,) and then to "hold fast that which is good." The more steadily, therefore, we look into the word of God, the more plainly we shall perceive the truth of these words: "one jot or tittle shall in no wise pass" "till all be fulfilled." Neither then the NUMBer nor the NAME of the Beast shall in any wise pass away, till the Time of his predicted reign be fulfilled, and HIS PROPER NAME fully discovered, and applied in an appellative sense to the MAN and HIS KINGDOM which are the special subjects of the prophetic Number xs' or 666.

It is most certain that many scriptural words, names and Texts have been so perverted from their original meaning and intention; that instead of establishing the Truths they were intended to convey to the mind, they have been cunningly laid as a Foundation for the most serious Heresies and destructive Errors. Wherefore it is most necessary that we pay the strictest regard even to the value of LETTERS, as well as words, &c., when such fearful consequences have resulted from too easy an acquiescence in those matters which on a little investigation are found to

be palpably wrong, and equally subversive of Reason and Holy writ and which ought never to have gained Credence till their merits had been more fairly canvassed.

Many have been the unavoidable interruptions which I have met with since the commencement of this work in the year 1830, arising from Parochial Duties and other Engagements. That such a Work, however, was wanted may be reasonably inferred from the confessions of some writers, and the palpable failure of others. But whether the good Providence of God has enabled me to place the subject of the Number 666 in that intelligible and unanswerable point of view, which is so desirable, is another question. That it is the Proper Name of a MAN, which is here demanded, is an axiom which cannot be denied. "The NAME of the Beast" "is the Number of a MAN; and HIS NUMBER is SIX HUNDRED THREE SCORE AND SIX :" and that, that Name is Aarêvos, is, I believe, equally clear. I can, however, conscientiously affirm, that my sincere and sedulous study has been to set the subject of the "Name" and "Number" beyond the possibility of alteration, and to effect the paramount establishment of the Name of "a MAN," namely, LATEINOS, as the true and ONLY appellative of the Numbered Beast, (Rev. xiii. 18.) and having strenuously attempted this, I must leave it to the candour of my Readers in general, and the supporters of Religious Truth in particular, to give their unbiassed Verdict according to the unerring and unchanging Word of