Why is “666” the sign of Satan?
This comes from Revelation 13:18 “Here calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is a man’s number. His number is 666.” It is correct that in most modern editions of the Greek New Testament, the number is spelled out as “six hundred sixty-six” (in Greek, of course), however in the various manuscripts this appears in a variety of forms: “six hundred sixty-six,” “666,” “six six six,” etc. Also, as pointed out elsewhere, in a handful of manuscripts, this number appears as “616;” in one manuscript it is given as “646.” There has been some recent discussion of the representation of the number in Revelation. Even when Greek NT manuscripts use a numerical rather than verbal representation, they use three different symbols for the digits, chi=600, xi=60, and stigma=6 (stigma or digamma being an obsolete Greek letter). Six Hundred Sixty-Six, but not 666. (The letter for 6 became known as stigma because the form of writing it looked like the ligat
