Number of the Beast Rescriptus" have led some scholars to regard 616 as the original Number of the Beast. According to Paul Louis, "The number 666 has been substituted for 616 either by analogy with 888, the [Greek] number of Jesus (Gustav Adolf Deissmann), or because it is a triangular number, the sum of the first 36 numbers (1+2+3+4+5+6+...+36 = 666)" Interpreting the identity and the number of the beast usually falls into three categories: In Greek isopsephy and Hebrew gematria, every letter has a corresponding numeric value. Summing these numbers gives a numeric value to a word or name. The use of isopsephy
Number of the Beast (comics) Number of the Beast (comics) Number of the Beast is a comic book limited series, written by Scott Beatty, with art by Chris Sprouse. "Number of the Beast" was the second in a number of bi-weekly series, it was preceded by "", which resulted in the relaunch of a number of Wildstorm titles. As well as regular Wildstorm characters the series introduced a new team, The Paladins, comprising: The story chronologically began in 1945, when General Zebulon McCandless, a very pious and dogmatic person, oversaw the American recovery of a crashed Daemonite flying saucer in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. The