Revelation 13:18 "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."
The Bible says this beast would have the mysterious number 666. Revelation 13:18 says, "It is the number of a man" and Revelation 15:2 says it is "the number of his name."
What man do you think of when you think of the Papacy? Naturally, we all think of the Pope - but that is not his official name. Here is a Catholic quote:
"The title of the pope of Rome is 'Vicarius Filii Dei'" [in English: 'Vicar of the Son of God']. Answers to readers questions in Our Sunday Visitor, November 15, 1914, p. 3
Malachi Martin, in The Keys of This Blood, uses the same title for the Pope on pages 114 and 122 of this book. A footnote for Revelation 13:18 in some Douay [Catholic] versions of the Bible says, "The numeral letters of his name shall make up this number."
In Roman numerals, some letters are given a numerical value. If we take the official Latin title of the Pope and convert this to Roman numerals, we get the following:
So the Pope’s official Latin title, "Vicarius Filii Dei", in Roman numerals = 666.
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