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# Sign of the Dutch Reformed
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/879/
- Published: 2005-05-05T23:13:22.000Z
- Updated: 2005-05-05T23:13:22.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

It's not 666\. It's 616\. [Link](http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=702d14ee-4847-4c3d-90ce-46e933232df0&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpt:

> A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the mark of the Antichrist.

> Ellen Aitken, a professor of early Christian history at McGill University, said the discovery appears to spell the end of 666 as the devil's prime number.

> "This is a very nice piece to find," Dr. Aitken said. "Scholars have argued for a long time over this, and it now seems that 616 was the original number of the beast."

Sounds like an area code. In fact, it *is* an area code, in western Michigan, around Grand Rapids. We just wonder how long it will be until the fundamentalist Reformed (there are a ton of them in the 616 region) petition the phone company to get their area code changed.