Revelation 13:18
This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast. For it is the number of a human being. Its number is 666.
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Psalms 107:43Whoever is wise should take note of these things 1 and meditate on Yahweh's acts of covenant faithfulness.
Hosea 14:9Who is wise that he may understand these things? 1 Who understands these things so that he may know them? 1 For the ways of Yahweh are right, 1 and the righteous will walk in them, 1 but the rebellious will stumble in them.
Romans 3:5But if our unrighteousness shows the righteousness of God, what can we say? Can we say that God is unrighteous to bring his wrath upon us? (I am using a human argument.)
Revelation 15:2I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mixed with fire. Standing beside the sea were those who had been victorious over the beast and his image, and over the number representing his name. They were holding harps given to them by God.
Revelation 21:17He also measured its wall, 144 cubits thick by human measurement (which is also the angel's measure).
Matthew Henry on Revelation 13:12-18
The Second Beast. ( a. d. 95.) 11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which… Read the whole commentary →