THE CHALLENGE OF BIBLE NUMERICS
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No one really knows how the Hebrew and Greek Languages obtained their
Numerical Values. In the English Alphabet we do not place numerical
values on each letter. However in both Hebrew and Greek, these values
have been used from earliest times.
My friend Kenneth Campbell at present studying the Gaelic languages of
Scotland and Wales has given me this information. He also informed me
that the Irish Gaelic is entirely different from these languages and
not akin to Hebrew in the same way.
He writes: "The Cadmean number system being the base of the Greek,
Hebrew and ‘Old Arabic’ numbers is said to have a common source, I have
never really looked at this stuff before, there are explanations for
how numbers changed due to the deferent sounds in the Hebrew-Phoenician
language and Greek, and how a few of them got changed etc. but I don’t
really understand it, it has to do with the conversion of the
Phoenician Alphabet to the Greek language which I understand made the
Ionian (sp?) alphabet.
It is called the Cadmean number system because was first brought to the
Greeks by Cadmus with the Alphabet. The Greeks say that
this ‘Phoenician’ scholar named Cadmus brought them the Alphabet from
his own country. I could not tell you if there really was a ‘Cadmus’ or
whether he just represented nameless Phoenician origin. I am not really
good on Greek myth, but someone else might be able to tell you more
about the Cadmus myth. It is clear however that the Cadmean system came
from the Phoenicians (i.e. to the Greeks anyone in the Phoenician
Empire) into the ancient world. I don’t think anyone has taken back
further than that, it would be difficult to say when the Phoenicians or
the Hebrews started using it, I can see nothing outside of Canaan that
it might have come from.
My guess is that it is of ‘Hebrew’ origin, I understand that Mosses
would have written in Cuneiform the Assyrian ‘Chaldean’ script, that I
would think the Hebrews still used in Egypt, I wish I had the chance,
but I forgot to find out what Cuneiform numbers are like, but the
Alphabet is so unlike the Phoenician I don’t see how the Cadmean system
came from that, or from Egyptian. I would guess that it was first used
in the scriptures in the time of David, when the Torah was rediscovered
this would have probably been when it was rewritten in the relatively
new ‘Phoenician’ script, as this would have been the script commonly
used in Cannan by that time, and I would imagine it is at this point
that the Hebrew characters, gained their official meanings that they
kept, until the Alphabet passed to the Greeks.
These significations could be older (but I understand that the numbers
were first written as words), could have come from the common trade use
attached to the Phoenician script or could have been invented by the
great scholars of King David and Solomon’s Empire. To tell you the
truth I don’t think we can really know were it came from, it could have
come even latter and just replaced what was written in the Torah, but
because of its introduction to the Greeks it can’t be to new. but if
someone was still interested in this sort of stuff, they could do a
real check all back through history, archeology and get a much better
idea, a real historian could probably determine whether it say came
from Cannan around the height of the Phoenician Empire or whether it is
seen used on stones in Tyre as early as the 12th century B.C. my guess
for the Cadmean number system, is that its standard form, and most
likely its origin are post Egyptian Israelite.
WE are living in an age of science. Indeed, so much is this the case
that the expression, " Is it scientific ? " has become quite proverbial
and is applied to all manner of matters, including religion. In the
Scriptures God has promised to
give those who trust Him all that is necessary in every time of
emergency, in every time of need. In harmony with this, the Almighty,
in the remote past, foreseeing the circumstances of this our day and
foreknowing that those who reverence Him would be confronted with the
query, "Is it scientific ?" has not only supplied us with scientific
proof of the inspiration of the Scriptures as revealed by the science
of the Bible Numerics,* but has also pre-arranged in His great "eternal
purpose" to give us a scientific demonstration of Bible Truth, and
thereby the God of Nature or Science and the God of the Bible are at
one proved to be identical, and true science and true religion shown to
be in perfect agreement.
By the term - Inspiration of the Scriptures - is meant the Divine
supervision and guidance in regard to the subject matter and
compilation of the Bible. While the writers of the various books in the
Holy Word were conscious of Divine guidance in their work, they were
probably quite unaware of the fact that every word they wrote was
directed by Divine will. While, of course, it was not a case of verbal
dictation, nevertheless the Science of Bible Numerics has proved beyond
all cavil that the words, yea the very letters, of Scripture in the
original languages are arranged according to a mathematical pattern so
marvellous, so completely beyond all human ingenuity that man is
utterly unable to produce another specimen of literature incorporating
such mathematical design.
This recently discovered science reveals the fact that the words and
letters of the Bible are arranged by God according to a definite plan,
just as the science of Botany reveals that the numbers in the different
sections of the various flowers are arranged mathematically, according
to particular numbers and their multiples. For example, the
mathematical base number of the buttercup is 5 (pentamerous, as the
Botanists say) ; there are 5 sepals in the calyx, 5 petals in the
corolla, IS, 20, 25 or some other number which is exactly so many fives
of stamens in the androecium, 5 carpels in the gynoecium (pistil).
Similarly, the mathematical base number of the daffodil is 3, that of
the mignonette 4. the wild rose 5. The words and letters of the Bible
are similarly arranged, for the Creator of the flowers is also the
Author of the Bible. As with the flowers, so with the Bible, the
mathematical base numbers vary, but in the latter case 7 is the
commonest. Take, for example, the very first sentence in the Bible-
Genesis. chapter i, verse i. In the Original Hebrew it reads:
This Hebrew sentence contains exactly 7 (SEVEN) words. These 7 words
have These seven words have altogether I4 syllables (TWO SEVENS) and 28
letters (FOUR SEVENS). Altogether there are at least twenty features of
SEVENS within the compass of this small sentence of seven words. As
another example, take the first eleven verses of the New Testament
collectively. In the original Greek the passage (Matthew 1:1-11) has a
vocabulary of 49 words (SEVEN SEVENS) of which 42 (SIX SEVENS) are
nouns and 7 (SEVEN) are not nouns; 14
words (TWO SEVENS) occur only once in the passage, while 35 (FIVE
SEVENS) begin with a vowel, and 2I (THREE SEVENS) begin with a
consonant, while seven (SEVEN) words occur in more than one form, and
42 (SIX SEVENS) occur in only one form; again, the 49 words have 266
letters (THIRTY EIGHT SEVENS): the sum of its factors (7,2,19.) is 28
(FOUR SEVENS); out of the 266 letters 140 (TWENTY SEVENS) are vowels
and 126 (EIGHTEEN SEVENS) are consonants. But this list does not by any
means exhaust the elaborate design of SEVENS which the Almighty has
wrought into this single paragraph of Scripture. The Science of Bible
Numerics is, therefore invaluable as an "acid test" as to the
genuineness of the text, eliminating at once all altogether
The Inspired Text of the Bible
The Septuagint Version is certainly inspired when it is quoted from by
the apostles, for example in Matthew 8:17 "That it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by Esaias (rather Isaiah, not the heathen Esaias) the
prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare [our]
sicknesses." The rendering is taken from the Septuagint not the Hebrew,
but Matthew was inspired by the Holy Spirit to use the Septuagint in
this instance. I do not consider it to be inspired if only because it
was composed by seventy Jews. I still believe Matthew was inspired in
this particular instance to use it. The rendering in Isaiah 53 is
different, Isaiah 53:4 "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried
our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and
afflicted." In a way sin and sickness are connected and the word saved
is sometimes translated as made whole. 4982 sozo (sode’-zo); from a
primary sos (contraction for
obsolete saoz, "safe"); to save, i.e. deliver or protect (literally or
figuratively): KJV—heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (make)
whole.
However it must be a good translation because the Jews stopped using it
in place of the Massoretes text written w the purpose of replacing the
Septuagint which had been used so well to prove that Jesus is the
Messiah.
The reason I believe the Masoretic text is also inspired without the
points added to it is that it can be proved by a simple test already
demonstrated. In Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth." This Hebrew sentence contains exactly seven words.
These seven words have altogether I4 syllables (TWO SEVENS) and 28
letters (FOUR SEVENS). Altogether there are at least twenty features of
SEVENS within the compass of this small sentence of seven words. As
another example, take the first eleven verses of the New Testament
collectively. In the original Greek the passage (Matthew 1:1-11) has a
vocabulary of 49 words (SEVEN SEVENS) of which 42 (SIX SEVENS) are
nouns and 7 (SEVEN) are not nouns; 14
words (TWO SEVENS) occur only once in the passage, while 35 (FIVE
SEVENS) begin with a vowel, and 2I (THREE SEVENS) begin with a
consonant, while seven (SEVEN) words occur in more than one form, and
42 (SIX SEVENS) occur in only one form; again, the 49 words have 266
letters (THIRTY EIGHT SEVENS): the sum of its factors (7,2,19.) is 28
(FOUR SEVENS); out of the 266 letters 140 (TWENTY SEVENS) are vowels
and 126 (EIGHTEEN SEVENS) are
consonants. But this list does not by any means exhaust the elaborate
design of SEVENS which the Almighty has wrought into this single
paragraph of Scripture. The Science of Bible Numerics is, therefore
invaluable as an "acid test" as to the genuineness of the text,
eliminating at once all
faulty readings and spurious passages. For instance, the authenticity
of the last twelve verses of the Gospel of St. Mark is disputed, but
when the test of Bible Numerics is applied it is found to be genuine.
This is not possible with the Greek translation of 1 John 5:7 "For
there are three that
bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and
these three are one." I agree that although this text is not inspired
it probably teaches a correct view of the Godhead. Who of us can claim
to understand the Trinity?
MARK 16:9-20.
The number of Greek words in this passage is 175 (twenty-five SEVENS)
its vocabulary has 98 words (fourteen SEVENS); the number of its forms
is 133 (nineteen SEVENS); the numeric value of the passage is 103,663
(fourteen thousand eight hundred and nine SEVENS); the numeric value of
its 133 forms is 89,663 (twelve thousand eight hundred and nine
SEVENS). Of these 133 forms, 112 (sixteen SEVENS) occur but once, and
21 (three SEVENS) occur more than once. The 98 words of the vocabulary
have 553 letters (seventy-nine SEVENS) of which 294 (forty two SEVENS)
are vowels and 259 (thirty—seven SEVENS are consonants.
Of the 98 words of the vocabulary, 84 (twelve SEVENS) are found before
in the gospel of Mark, and 14 (two SEVENS) are found only here, and 7
(SEVEN) of these 14 words are not found in the New Testament at all
before this passage, but are found afterwards. And again, of the 98
words in the vocabulary, 42 (six SEVENS) are used by the Lord in his
address to the disciples, and 56 (eight SEVENS) form no part of his
vocabulary. And what is true here of the vocabulary to this passage is
true also of the Passage itself. Its 175 words are thus divided between
the speech of the Lord and the rest of the passage, the speech has 56
words (eight SEVENS), the rest of the passage has 119 words (seventeen
SEVENS).
Among the parts of speech the 98 words of the vocabulary are thus
divided: words other than nouns are 77 in number (eleven SEVENS), the
nouns 21 (three SEVENS) of which 7 (SEVEN) begin with a vowel and 14
(two SEVENS) begin with a consonant. The seven words of the vocabulary
found afterwards in the New Testament, but not before this passage,
occur in the New Testament 35 times (five SEVENS) and have a numeric
value of 8,246 (one thousand, one hundred and seventy eight SEVENS).
The word in the vocabulary which occurs the largest number of times in
this passage is the Greek (stem to) meaning " the "; it occurs here 21
times (three SEENS) and has a value of 70 (ten SEVENS). Just one word
in the vocabulary of this passage is found nowhere else in the New
Testament, viz., the Greek word meaning " deadly."
This one word presents the following phenomena; its numeric value is
581 (eighty-three SEVENS); it is preceded in the vocabulary by 42 words
(six SEVENS) and in the passage itself by 126 words (eighteen SEVENS).
It will be noticed that in the Revised Version the passage is divided
into its three natural divisions by means of paragraphs, the first of
which contains verses 9-11, the second 12-18 and the third 19-20. The
I75 words of this passage (twenty-five SEVENS) are thus distributed
among its three natural divisions: verses 9-11 have 35 words (five
SEVENS), verses 12-18 have 105 words (fifteen SEVENS), verses 19-20
have 35 words (five SEVENS).
And what is true here of the passage as a whole is also true of its
divisions. Thus the longest of the three divisions the middle one,
verses 12-18, with its 105 words (fifteen SEVENS), is thus divided:
verse 12, a natural subdivision, has 14 words (two SEVENS), verses 13-
15, to the speech of the Lord, have 35 words (five SEVENS), while the
speech of the Lord has 56 words (eight SEVENS). The numeric value of
this passage was stated above to be 103,663 (fourteen thousand, eight
hundred and nine (SEVENS). Of this number the first natural division,
verses 9-11 has 17,213 (two thousand four hundred and fifty-nine
SEVENS), and verses 12-20 have 86,450 (twelve thousand three hundred
and fifty SEVENS). Verses 9-11 are in their turn thus subdivided: the
three verses 9, 10, and 11, form natural divisions. Accordingly, the
numeric value of this division, 17,213 (two thousand, four hundred and
fifty-nine SEVENS), is thus divided: the middle subdivision, verse 10,
has 5,418 (seven hundred and seventy-four SEVENS), the two outside
ones, verses 9 and 11 have 11.795 (one thousand six hundred and eighty-
five SEVENS).
The middle subdivision, verse 10, has in its turn its numeric value
divided thus: its first word, ekeinee, has 98 (fourteen SEVENS), its
last word, klaiousin, has 791 (one hundred and thirteen SEVENS), the
remaining words have 4,529 (six hundred and forty-seven SEVENS). This
feature in verse 10--that of its entire numeric value, which is so many
SEVENS, the values of the first and last words are each also a multiple
of SEVEN-is duplicated in the vocabulary of forms. Its 133 words
(nineteen SEVENS) have, as stated above, a numeric value of 89,663
(twelve thousand eight hundred and nine SEVENS).
Now the value of the first alphabetical form, argon, is 224 (thirty-two
SEVENS), that of the last oneidisen 1,134 (one hundred and sixty-two
SEVENS). These two words have 14 letters (two SEVENS), of which 7
(SEVEN) are vowels and 7 (SEVEN) are consonants. The first division of
this passage verses 9-11, has numerics of its own thus: Of its 35 words
(five SEVENS), 14 (two SEVENS) begin with a vowel and 21 (three SEVENS)
begin with a consonant. 7 (SEVEN) begin and end with a vowel.
The 35 words of this division have 84 (twelve SEVENS) syllables. Their
numeric value is, as already stated, 17,213 (two thousand four hundred
and fifty-nine SEVENS): If now their numeric values he placed over each
of the 35 words as they stand in the passage and every SEVENTH value
taken out, the numbers are 1,400, 386, 1,171, 1,247, 857. Their sum is
5,061 (seven hundred and twenty-three SEVENS), of which the first has
1,400 (two hundred SEVENS).
In this passage the risen Lord appears to (a) Mary, (b) two disciples,
(c) the eleven; that is, to 14 persons (two SEVENS) in all. Three
numerals are found here: duo, epta, endeka, "two," "seven," "eleven."
These numeric words have 7 (SEVEN) syllables and a numeric value of
945, with the sum of its factor 21 (three SEVENS). Verse 20, the last
verse of this passage, hence the last verse in Mark, has a vocabulary
of 14 words (two SEVENS) of which 7 (SEVEN) are found before in this
passage and 7 (SEVEN) are found only here. The last word of this verse,
hence the last word in the Book of Mark is seemeion, and this word has
a numeric value of 1,113 (one hundred and fifty-nine SEVENS) and at the
same time has 7 (SEVEN) letters.
From the foregoing it will be seen that every word and every letter in
Mark 16:9-20, is fixed and sealed by a most elaborate design of SEVENS,
and, what is equally important, the passage is interlocked, not only
with the Book of Mark itself, but with the entire New Testament by a
design of SEVENS.
This wonderful interlocking of individual passages or books, as the
case may be, with the whole Bible, or with the entire Hebrew portion,
i.e., the Old Testament, or the entire Greek portion, i.e. the new
Testament, is one of the most convincing proofs of the Divine
authorship of ALL Scripture.
Take as another instance, the Book of James, and for the sake of
brevity, let us confine ourselves to one item out of many, viz., the
vocabulary. The vocabulary of James consists of 546 words (seventy-
eight SEVENS) of which 56 (eight SEVENS) are peculiar to James, not
being found elsewhere in the New Testament; 63 (nine SEVENS) are found
in James for the first time in the New Testament, being found in the
books that follow James, but not in the books that precede him; 35
(five SEVENS) are found in James for the last time in the New
Testament, being found in the books that precede James, but not in
those which follow him.
Furthermore, 392 words (fifty-six SEVENS) are found both before and
after James. This is a single item out of the hundreds that could be
reckoned up in the case of this epistle of seven pages. But can any
sane man maintain even for a moment that James could have written his
Epistle thus (giving him, say, some 500 years to elaborate his numerics
unless he had the other twenty-six books of the New Testament before
him? But we know that James had not all the other books of the New
Testament in front of him, because the Book of Revelation had not then
been written and did not come into existence till many years
afterwards. Thus we have clear proof that a Higher Power than the
Apostle James was behind the writing of the Epistle that bears his name.
Indeed the manner in which individual words are arranged throughout the
Scriptures according to numeric design has proved to be useful in the
checking and correcting of concordances. In this thesis, which is
largely made up of extracts from the writings of Ivan Panin of Toronto,
Canada, the discoverer of this Science, we have merely touched the
fringe of this great subject, and have only given a few examples in the
case of SEVENS.
Marvellous numeric designs exist in the case of other numbers also, and
these numeric phenomena permeate the entire Scriptures from Genesis to
Revelation. This is all the more wonderful in view of the fact that the
books of the Bible were written by many different writers living
centuries apart in point of time and hundreds of miles apart in point
of distance. The whole Bible has, therefore been planned by a superior
Mathematical Mind, the Mathematical Author of Nature. No literature on
Earth, outside of the Bible, contains these marvellous numeric
phenomena, which are proof of Divine inspiration.
It was not possible to write the Greek words with this UK keyboard, so
we hope they will be recognised by Bible Students. In some cases it was
impossible even to set out their correct pronunciation. Someone trying
to disprove the theory by using English with his own Numeric values
failed to take up my challenge to do the same using the Greek Classics.
I suggest he tried but was not successful.
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