reek text, written by
prophets and apostles.

This Latin kingdom is the only one that ever corresponded to the
characteristics of the beast. And its name--_Latinos_ in the Greek, and
_Romiith_ in the Hebrew--is equivalent to the required number.

"The Greek and Hebrew letters composing the words {~HEBREW LETTER RESH~}{~HEBREW LETTER VAV~}{~HEBREW LETTER MEM~}{~HEBREW LETTER YOD~}{~HEBREW LETTER YOD~}{~HEBREW LETTER TAV~},
_Romiith_--{~HEBREW LETTER RESH~}{~HEBREW LETTER MEM~}{~HEBREW LETTER AYIN~}{~HEBREW LETTER NUN~}{~HEBREW LETTER VAV~}{~HEBREW LETTER SHIN~}, _Romanus_--{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}, _Latinos_, each of them making in
numerals exactly 666, plainly point out not only his name, and the number
of his name, but also the _mark_ of his _name_; as for example:

in {~HEBREW LETTER RESH~} {~HEBREW LETTER VAV~} {~HEBREW LETTER MEM~} {~HEBREW LETTER YOD~} {~HEBREW LETTER YOD~} {~HEBREW LETTER TAV~} _Romiith_; so likewise
400 10 10 40 6 200 = 666
{~HEBREW LETTER RESH~} {~HEBREW LETTER MEM~} {~HEBREW LETTER AYIN~} {~HEBREW LETTER NUN~} {~HEBREW LETTER VAV~} {~HEBREW LETTER SHIN~} _Romanus_; and also
300 6 50 70 40 200 = 666
the Greek {~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} _Latinos_,
30 1 300 5 10 50 70 200 = 666.

in each of which the exact mark is contained.

"It therefore evidently appears, that each name is both a mark and a
number; a mark, when viewed as made up of so many letters, therefore
called the mark of his name; a number, when viewed as made up of so many
numerals, then called the number of his name. But when considered merely
as a name, derived from _Romiith_, a Roman, or _Romulus_, the founder of
Rome, a name common among men, it may then be properly called the _mark,
or number of a man_."--_Fleming's Rise and Fall of Papacy._

To receive the mark of the beast, would be an acknowledgment of subjection
to it. The connection of the beast and its image was so intimate, that
submission to the one, was virtual submission to the other. To submit to
the rites of the church modelled after the wild beast, to profess its
faith