CHAPTER X. TWO TABLES ILLUSTRATIVE OF MR. FABER'S WORD APOSTATÈS, EXHIBITING ITS PALPABLE INCONSISTENCY WITH THE TRUE NUMBER XES' OR 666. I. An arithmetical TABLE of the word AroσTarns with the Mark above. σ 1st. with the two Letters and r', uncontractedly; and 2ndly. with the said two Letters contractedly, as, 5. T 300 300 Subtract the No. of the Man 666 Subtract the No. of the Man 666 Subtract the No. of the Man 666 Remainder too many by 494 Remainder too many by 494 Remainder too many by 494 = 200 300 8 = 200 1160 II. Αποςατης. επισημον 3rdly. with the Letters, and 4 different forms of the same Episèmon, in lieu of the 2 Letters o' and τ'. and there will be a deficiency of Six 660 and a deficiency of Six 660 and a deficiency of Six 660 and a deficiency of Six 660 6 Subtract the episè mon F as before 6 Subtract the episèmon V as before 6 As the first of the foregoing Tables, including three forms of the word APOSTATES, presents us with LETTERS arithmetically redundant, that is by 494 ; so are the four latter examples DEFICIENT, in the second Table, (not in Numbers, but in LETTERS,) to the amount of 6, which consequently destroys the Integrity of the Number of the Man which is declared by St. John to be 666 and NOT 660: and, therefore, it must be obvious that all words or Names of Men, &c. are COMPOSED OF LETTERS, and LETTERS ONLY; for without the LETTERS there could be no production of a COMPLETE WORD or NAME OF A MAN, according to the existing rules of Grecian Orthography; because the introduction of the or numerical cypher among the Letters of the Word (or Name) would thereby produce a chasm or HIATUS to the destruction of the said Word (or Name.) Ex. Gr. APOG'ATÈS .... APOGATÈS.... APOFATÈS.... APOVATÈS, &c. &c. Furthermore, if it can once be proved that it is legitimate orthography to introduce one episèmon into a MAN'S NAME, I will venture to prove also that it is equally legitimate to introduce the whole three episèma in like manner. Suppose, for example, that a certain number was proposed from which a Name was to be elicited, but in which were three Letters and the three episèma, as a ß và s'—which would collectively (with the Mark above and below) produce the number 1002; would any person in his senses attempt to find the Name of a Man, or any other Name composed of Greek Letters from this given Number a Br4s', or 1002, by the use of the Three Letters aßy in conjunction with the three episèma 4? It would surely be more reasonable at least to metamorphose the number xs' into the Name of a Man! And why has Mr. Faber selected the episèmon' and not used the Two real Letters x and ξ in the word Αποστατης ? Is it not because the two Letters x and have nothing to do with the NAME, but ONLY the NUMBER of the MAN. The Number x consists of two Letters and one episèmon, which are numerically put to represent that is, Six Hundred Threescore and Six:" but x and have nothing whatever to do, either in appearance or reality with any one Letter, or two Letters, in the word ATGTаrns, and yet the episèmon 'must be torn from its numerical station to make a FRACTION of the word Ansaτns. we not add the two Letters x and Why then should which compose For in truth, other three as also the the greater part of the Number 666 ? if it can be legitimate orthography to use the episèmon in the Name of a Man, so it must be to use the two Letters x and with the forms of the episèmon, viz. F, V, 9, other two episima, viz. Κοππα and Σανπι, already shewn the impossibility of such admission. And therefore it is extremely strange to observe the extravagancy to which men will run, in order to attempt to prove a point which never can be proved But I have |