In the period after Nero’s death there was a concern that Text preserved by Eusebius of Caesarea, and is probably an interpolation.) Inexperience, have ventured to seek out a name which should contain theĮrroneous and spurious number.” (The bracketed portion is not in the Greek
Making use of this number expressing one decad while some, in their Number sixty was easily expanded into the letter Iota of the Greeks.] Others then received this reading withoutĮxamination some in their simplicity, and upon their own responsibility, Occurred through the fault of the copyists, as is wont to happen, since numbersĪlso are expressed by letters so that the Greek letter which expresses the
Not know how it is that some have erred following the ordinary mode of speech,Īnd have vitiated the middle number in the name, deducting the amount of fiftyįrom it, so that instead of six decads they will have it that there is but one.
Irenaeus continued with a long note in which he mentioned theĪlternate-reading 616 and declared it to be a corruption: “I do
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