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 sum, amounting to 969, which is unluckily too large to serve the purpose sought by these eager enemies of the papacy: and if they would get it from Hebrew numerals, the reader must recollect we have nothing to do with any but Greek numerals.

But it is an historical fact that, since the destruction of the Roman empire, two vast empires have arisen on the broad platform of the old empire of the Macedonian he-goat, that these empires have done exactly what all prophecy declared that they would do, that they have literally fulfilled the descriptions of Daniel and St. John: and it is no less a fact, that both these empires have been identified with Mahomet. Now then let the reader weigh in connection with this remarkable fact this equally remarkable solution of the mystic number 666.

In other words, 666 in Greek numerals gives