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# 616
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/200555616-html/
- Published: 2005-05-05T02:55:20.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:34:48.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Faith, #DashHouseCom, #wp

From [*The National Post*](http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/toronto/story.html?id=702d14ee-4847-4c3d-90ce-46e933232df0&ref=dashhouse.com):

> Satanists, apocalypse watchers and heavy metal guitarists may have to adjust their demonic numerology after a recently deciphered ancient biblical text revealed that 666 is not the fabled Number of the Beast after all. A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the mark of the Antichrist. Ellen Aitken, a professor of early Christian history at McGill University, said the discovery appears to spell the end of 666 as the devil’s prime number. “This is a very nice piece to find,” Dr. Aitken said. “Scholars have argued for a long time over this, and it now seems that 616 was the original number of the beast.”