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 prophecies relating to Antichrist have been so literally and so perfectly fulfilled in that very Mahomet, I should submit that Mahomet must have a better claim to the mysterious number 666 than any of his rivals, even admitting—which I do not admit—that their names may with equal accuracy be extracted from the sum of Greek letters expressing it.

The following explanation of the mystic number was sent me the other day by my learned friend the Abbé, one of the most profound students of Oriental literature in France.

I give it in his own words.

Tn other words, spells the number 666; that is, Mahomet the Son of Abdallah.

My learned friend appends to his exposition of the number 666 these remarkable words: "Les 1260 jours, 42 mois, ou 3½ ans, sont