From:  Numeric Greek New Testament
(The New Testament in the Original Greek)
By:  Ivan Panin
Book Society of Canada Ltd.
Reprinted 1975
Copyright 1934
 
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The original document contains Greek characters.
The following transliteration method was used:
 
place              numeric
value              value

  1   alpha    A    1
  2   beta     B    2
  3   gamma    G    3
  4   delta    D    4
  5   epsilon  E    5  vau=6
  6   zeta     Z    7
  7   eta      H    8
  8   theta    Q    9
  9   iota     I   10
  10  kappa    K   20
  11  lambda   L   30
  12  mu       M   40
  13  nu       N   50
  14  xi       F   60
  15  omicron  O   70
  16  pi       P   80  koppa=90
  17  rho      R  100
  18  sigma    S  200
  19  tau      T  300
  20  upsilon  U  400
  21  phi      V  500
  22  chi      X  600
  23  psi      Y  700
  24  omega    W  800  sampi=900
 
Section I

1. INTRODUCTION

This edition of the Greek New Testament is a revision of its text by means of Bible Numerics, the name given by the present writer to the hitherto, in all literature, unparalleled numeric phenomena of the Bible discovered by him in 1890.  In a second  volume it is intended to give a full and systematic account of the nature and scope of Bible numerics, and of the means it furnishes for settling the text of the Bible and safeguarding its purity.  Fragmentarily this has been done by the writer during the last forty years in numerous monographs, each independently demonstrating their surpassing value for the purpose named above.  The vocabularies, concordances, and the other necessary data enabling the reader to verify the writer's labors for himself could not always be given in print.  For the benefit, however, of those who may have to limit themselves to this volume alone an attempt is made in this Introduction to give them some working acquaintance with the subject, especially with the method of settling the many disputed readings which still remain in the Bible.

2.  In the examples presented for this purpose preference is given to those which lend themselves to the verification by the reader himself with the text in his hand.  Thus the first illustration presented in Section 4, the statement that Matthew i. 18-25 contains 161 words, the reader by turning to the passage, and taking the trouble to count it for himself, can verify it.  He will thus likewise find that verses 18-21, a logical division of the passage, have 92 words, and verses 22-25 have 69.  He will thus see for himself the following numeric scheme:

              161 is 7 x 23
                               or 23 x 7
    vv. 18-21, 92 " (7 x 13) + 1
                               or 23 x 4
    vv. 22-23, 69 " (7 x 2 x 5) - 1
                               or 23  x 3

That is:  the number of words being 7 twenty-threes, it is divided between the two logical divisions of the passage not at random, but by twenty-threes.  As 161, however, is also 23 sevens, the division produces the sevens also, though not directly as the twenty-threes, this being here impossible; but indirectly, by neighborhood:  92 being neighbor of 91 or 13 sevens; and 69 being neighbor of 70, or 7 x 2 x 5.  Whether by chance or design, the double scheme of 7 and 23 is there.  Only the chance for its being accidental undesigned is one in

     23 x 23 x 7 x 7 x 7 / 2 or 90,723,

less than one in ninety thousand for this one item alone.

3.  The phenomena, however, of the vocabulary and its forms recounted there the reader will be unable to verify for himself, as their reproduction in this Introduction is impracticable, and the labor of constructing these for himself he will find arduous.  The writer, therefore, trusts that the reader in what he cannot verify for himself will exercise that faith which of necessity is (in any normal intellect) born from the knowledge acquired by what he can verify.  Accordingly the topics presented are limited by this consideration.  For the reader's benefit, however, every item he can thus verify for himself is marked with a star (*), to remind him that the needful verification is within his own reach.

4.  Matthew i. 18-25 tells of the birth of Jesus Christ.  It has 161 words, or 23 sevens (feature 1)*, which occur in 105 forms, or 15 sevens (feature 2), with a vocabulary of 77 words, itself 11 sevens (feature 3), with the sum of its figures 14, or 2 sevens (feature 4), divided between the units and tens by seven (feature 5).  In verses 20-21 the angel addresses Joseph.  Accordingly, of the 77 words of the vocabulary the angel uses 28 or 4 sevens; leaving for the rest 49, or seven (feature 6) sevens (feature 7).  In like manner the angel uses 35 of the 105 forms, or 5 sevens, leaving unused 70 forms, itself 7 x 2 x 5,  or 10 sevens (feature 8): with the sum of its own figures 7 (feature 9); and that of its factors 14, or 2 sevens (feature 10).  This division, moreover, is not only by 5 sevens; thus:

           105 is 7 x 5 x 3
            35 is 7 x 5 x 1
            70 is 7 x 5 x 2.

This enumeration is a bare scratch on the surface; pages would not exhaust the phenomena of not only sevens but also elevens (since 77 is 7 elevens); of fifteens (105 being 7 x 15); and of twenty-threes (161 being 7 x 23).  The chance, however, for the 10 features of sevens alone already enumerated is only one in 282,475,249, a number of nine figures, sufficient to establish design as against mere chance; and it may thus be accepted as settled that a design of sevens runs through this passage.

5.  This calculation takes no account of the division by five sevens at feature 10, nor of the combined scheme of sevens and twenty-threes already spoken of in section 2.  Other features the reader may find for himself almost on inspection; thus verses 18-19, a logical division by itself, have 42 words or 6 sevens, leaving for the rest 119, or 17 sevens (feature 11)*; the last verse, also a natural division, has 14 words, or 2 sevens the rest has 147, or 7 x 7 x 3, or 3 sevens (feature 12)* of sevens (feature 13)*. The statement `Now the birth of Jesus Christ was thus', has seven words of the vocabulary, leaving 70 for the rest of the passage; itself 10 sevens (feature 14) with the sum its figures seven (feature 15); and the sum of its factors 7, 2, 5, fourteen, or 2 sevens (feature 16).  It may be added here that in the vocabulary of the 161 words of the passage 92 begin with a vowel, and 69 with a consonant; but this division has already  been met before (section 2) with its double scheme of seven and twenty-three (feature 17); thus:

       161 is 7 x 23          or 23 x 7
        92 " (7 x 13) + 1     or 23 x 4
        69 " (7 x 2 x 5) - 1  or 23 x 3

6. Verses 1-8 of the Gospel according to Mark deal with the ministry of John Baptist.  They are accordingly spaced off by themselves in the revision by Westcott and Hort, who in the matter of dividing the text into logical divisions are especially  expert.  This passage has 126 words, or 18 sevens (feature 1)*, with 294 syllables, or 7 x 7 x 6, or 6 sevens (feature 2)* of sevens (feature 3)*; and a vocabulary of 77 words, or 11 sevens (feature 4), with the sum of its figures 14, or 2 sevens (feature 5), divided between units and tens by seven (feature 6).  This vocabulary of 77 words has 427 letters, or 7 x 61, a multiple of seven (feature 7), with the sum of the figures of its factors 14, or 2 sevens (feature  8).  Of the 427 letters 224, or 32 sevens, are vowels, and 203, or 29 sevens, are consonants (feature 9).  John uses 21 words of the vocabulary, or 3 sevens; leaving 56 for the rest, or 8 sevens (feature 10): 42, or 6 sevens, begin with a vowel; and 35, or 5 sevens, begin with a consonant (feature 11).

7.  In `The Last Twelve Verses of Mark, their Genuineness Established', the concordance and vocabulary to Mark i. 1-8 are given on pp. 64-7.  Here it suffices to add the following items.  Only 19 letters are used for beginning the 77 words of the  vocabulary: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, omicron, pi, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi; of these the letters in the odd places, 1, 3, 5 ... 19, have 49 words, or seven sevens (feature 12); those in the even places, 2, 4, ... 18, have 28, or 4 sevens (feature 13).  Every seventh word of the vocabulary (there being  eleven such, 77 being 7 x 11) have together 56 letters, or 8 sevens; leaving for the others 371 or 53 sevens (feature 14).  And the same division of the 427 letters, or 61 sevens, into 56 and 371 is produced thus:  the  words beginning with the rough breathing, AGIOS, AMARTIA, &c. (adding the sound h to the letter) have 56, and the others have 371 (feature 15).  The longest vocabulary word, IEROSOLUMEITHS, Jerusalemite, has 14 letters, or 2 sevens; the rest have 413, itself 59 sevens (feature 16), with the sum of the figures in the factors (7,5,9) 21, or 3 sevens (feature 17).

8.  These elaborate Numeric designs are presented in less than one page in two different books by different writers.  As not a page, paragraph, nor even a sentence in the whole Bible, Hebrew Old Testament, or Greek New Testament, but shows similar elaborate designs, the Bible thus furnishes its own evidence of Superhuman Authorship by One Mind, though written by 33 different writers in 66 different books, with some 1,600 years between the first writer, Moses, and the last, John.  Here, however, the writer's concern is not so much with the inspiration to the Bible - this has been abundantly shown by him in numerous monographs - as with the light thrown on its text by this numeric structure.

9.  In Matthew i. 18-25 (sections 2, 6) Westcott and Hort leave five readings uncertain:

(1) Shall Jesus be omitted in verse 18, as in the Roman Catholic Bible?
(2) If Jesus is retained is the order Jesus Christ or Christ Jesus?
(3) in  verse 20 MARIAN or MARIAM?  Mary or Miriam?
(4) In verse 24 omit O, the, before Joseph?
(5) In verse 25 omit OU, what [time]?

The omission of any one of the three in (1), (4), (5) destroys the design displayed by this passage.  The number of words ceases to be a multiple of seven; by the omission of Jesus, the number of forms also ceases to be a multiple of seven.  The numeric scheme so far expounded is not destroyed by the change of Jesus Christ in to Christ Jesus; but the true order of these words is found by a new set of Numerics given below.  Neither is the design so far displayed affected by changing MARIAN, Mary, into MARIAM, but these two changes destroy two different designs, each differing from the one already presented, and from each other.

10.  XRISTOS, Christ, occurs in Matthew i. 1-25, the entire  chapter (a natural, logical division by itself), in verses 1, 16, 17, 18; and occupies in the whole number of words in the Chapter places 4*, 246*, 275*, 282*.  That is, Christ is word 4 at its first occurrence, and word 282 at its last occurrence in the chapter.  The sum of these four numbers is 807;  of which those occupying the odd of the four places 1, 2, 3, 4, have 279;  the  even places have 528.  Now

807 is (31 x 13 x 2) + 1 or (8 x 101) -1
                         or 3 x 269

279 is 31 x 9            or (8 x 35)-1
                         or 3 x 3 x 31

528 is (31 x 17) + 1     or 8 x 2 x 3 x 11
                         or 3 x 176.

That is:  the sum of the four place-numbers of Christ in Matthew i. 1-25, 807, is itself a multiple of thirty-one (and of the reverse, thirteen); and of 808, or 35 eights.  Accordingly, this sum is so divided between the two odd places, 1, 3, and the even places 2, 4, as to produce all the three factors 3, 8, 31, in  the division.  The chance for this being accidental, undesigned is one in

   31 x 31 x 13 x 8 x 8 x 8 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 2,
                 or 345,406,464.

An elaborate design of threes, eights, and thirty-ones thus runs through the mere places of Christ in the text; but this design does not tell yet whether the last occurrence is word 282 or 281.

11.  If, however, we multiply the four place-numbers by 1, 2, 3, 4, we have

         4x1 is     4
       246x2 is   492
       275x3 is   825
       282x4 is 1,128
                _____
                2,449 or 31x79
                      or (16x153) + 1
                      or (9x272) + 1
of this
       1-2 have   496 or 31x16
                      or  16x31
                      or (9x55) + 1
       3-4 have 1,953 or 31x63
                      or (16x61x2) + 1
                      or  9x217.

This process reproduces the thirty-ones of 807 above; and the division of the product 2,449 into a set of 1-2 and 3-4 reproduces the 31, the eights (16 being 8 x 2), and the threes, 9  being 3 x 3).  The two collocations, original and multiplied, give the same numeric schemes.  The chance for the second scheme is one in  31 x 31 x 16 x 16 x 61 x 81 or some 1,200,000,000.  the chance for these two schemes to happen together is one in 345  x 1,200 millions of millions.  But this second design is possible only with the word Christ holding place 282 in thee passage, instead of 281, as in the multiplication the result would differ by 4, destroying the design.

12.  A variation of this method (multiplication by the order numbers) gives the same demonstration.  The sum 2,449 (obtained by the multiplication of the four place-numbers of Christ by their order-numbers 1, 2, 3, 4) is divided by its third member thus:

3 has:
      825 or 5x5x3x11 or (7x2x59)-1
          or (8x103)+1

1,2,4 have:
     1,624 or (5x5x5x13)-1 or 7x2x2x2x29
           or  8x7x29
     2,449 or (5x5x98)-1   or (7x7x2x25)-1
           or (8x2x153)+1  or 31 x 79.

That is:  in addition to being a multiple of thirty-one and eight (already found in 807, section 10) 2,449 is neighbor of 5 x 5 and 7 x 7.  Accordingly it produces the 5 x 5 and 7 x 2 in this division in addition to the eights.  The chance for this numeric scheme is one in

    5x5x5x5x5x7x7x7x8x8x8 or 3,125x343x512
                 or 450,000,000.

13. Neither, however, of the two methods hitherto presented, for establishing readings is so far available for the decision between Mary and Miriam in verse 20.  For this particular case and others like it another method is available, no less effective than those hitherto brought forth.

     The Greeks, as well as the Hebrews, had no separate symbols for numbers corresponding to our Arabic figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, but used the letters of their alphabets instead, assigning to each letter its NUMERIC VALUE;  the letters alpha - theta for numbers of one figure, 1-9 (later 6 had no letter for it); the letters iota - pi for numbers of two figures, 10-80 (90 having no letter); the letters rho - omega for numbers of three figures, 100-800.  Every Greek or Hebrew letter thus stands for a number, as well as a sound, and this number is its Numeric Value.  The numeric value of a word is thus the sum of the numeric values of its letters.  The numeric value of a passage is the sum of the numeric values of its words.  The numeric value, for example, of the letters, iota, eta, sigma, omicron, upsilon, sigma, being 10, 8, 200, 70, 400, 200, the numeric value of IHSOUS, Jesus, is 888.

14. Now the numeric value of the 77 words of the vocabulary of Matthew i. 18-25 (itself 11 sevens) is 51,247, or 7321 sevens; of  which the six words found nowhere else in Matthew have 5005, or 7 x 11 x 13 x 5, leaving for the others 46,242, or 7 x 7 x 2 x 3 x 3 x 367, a multiple of seven sevens; and of these six words the one word EMMANOUEL, Emmanuel, has 644*, or 7 x 23 x 2 x 2, the combination of seven with twenty-three (section 2, end, and section 5, end), and the sum of its figures, 6, 4, 4, fourteen, or 2 sevens.  The numeric value of the 105 forms, or 15 sevens, is 65,429, or 7 x 13 x 719, itself 9347 sevens, with the sum of the figures of the factors 28 or 4 sevens.  The numeric value of the entire passage  with its 161 words or 23 sevens is 93,394* or 7 x 7 x 2 x 953, itself 1,906 sevens of seven, with the sum of its figures 28, or 4 sevens.

This enumeration of the numerics of the mere numeric values here is not exhaustive, but a scheme of sevens -ten features- clearly runs through them here; and is destroyed by the change of Mary into Miriam; and this design would also be destroyed, as the one discussed in sections 2-6, by the omission of any or all of the three words IESOU, O, OU.  This separate design for the Numeric Values thus safeguards the form Mary as against Miriam, and confirms the evidence previously produced for the retention of three hitherto suspected words in this passage.

15.  These numerics, however, not only give certainty here to the five readings left uncertain by Westcott and Hort; they go further:  They correct the wrong spelling of David adopted by Lachmann, Tischendorf, Tregelles, Alford, and Westcott and Hort, who give it as DAUEID, Daveid, six letters instead of five.  By the addition of a letter with a numeric value of five, the design running through the Numeric Values of Matthew i. 18-25 is Destroyed.

16.  No fewer than six hitherto disputed readings are thus established by means of Bible numerics in Matthew i. 18-25, a passage of some twenty lines.  None of these, however, affect the sense seriously unless the omission of Jesus or the order of Jesus Christ affect doctrine.  For it may now be accepted as settled that the phrase Jesus Christ is something more than a mere name or title;  likewise that the distinction between Jesus Christ and Christ Jesus is neither accidental nor void of meaning.  The first eight verses of Mark, however, left by Westcott and Hort with two readings uncertain, present a case which bears strongly on the actual character of the Gospel according to Mark.  According to the revisers of 1881 and the critical editors, Mark i. 1 reads, `The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God'.  Westcott and Hort in their uncertainty omit two words here and have it:  `[A] beginning of [the] Gospel of Jesus Christ'.  According to the revisors and the others, of the four views given of the Lord in the four Gospels, Mark presents Him as the Son of God, where Matthew presents Him as the King of the Jews, and Luke as the Son of Man, leaving John rather problematic.  Westcott and Hort, omitting `Son of God', present him in their primary reading as the Servant, who needs no genealogy, whereas the King must descend from Abraham and David, and the Son of Man from Adam, which genealogies are accordingly duly given in Matthew and Luke.  And if the Son of God is presented by John, then John's going back even from Adam in his first verse is only normal.  The retention of Son of God in Mark thus affects the character not only of Mark's Gospel but also of John's.

17. Now the numeric design of Mark i. 1-8 as displayed in sections 6-7 is destroyed by the retention of `Son of  God' in this passage; the vocabulary words becoming 79 instead of 77, the passage having 128 words instead of 126, and so throughout the now present design.  Westcott and Hort's alternative omission of MOU, me, after OPISW in verse 7 opens the question as to the meaning of behind, when elsewhere John Baptist is taking pains to say that the Lord Jesus was before him.  The omission of this  word also destroys the design, at least in part.  Two readings are thus established by the numerics of this passage; one most important, the other of some importance.

18. It has been shown in section 15, against the best manuscripts and editors, that the true spelling is DAUID, instead of DAUEID.  The vocabularies and other tables with their numeric values demonstrating this have been given elsewhere, but are too lengthy to be reproduced here.  As, however, even a single phrase can demonstrate it likewise, two examples are given here, which the reader can verify for himself.  The first is chosen solely as an illustration of another method of settling the text, by the use of place values,  which differ from numeric values in this:  the place held by a letter in the alphabet, whether Greek or Hebrew, is its place-value.  The first letter, alpha, has thus for its place value 1; beta, 2; gamma,3; the last letter, omega, being the twenty-fourth, has 24.  So that IHSOUS, with its numeric  value 888 (section 13, end) has for its place-value 87, the sum of 9, 7, 18, 15, 20, 18, the place-values of its six letters.

19. The phrase in Matthew i. 17, ABRAAM EWS DAUID Abraham till David, has for its words the following place-values:

          Place*   Numeric*
            34       145     ABRAAM
            47     1,005     EWS
            38       419     DAUID
           ____    ______
           119     1,569

This phrase has a place-value of 119, or 17 sevens (feature 1), and seven syllables (feature 2), with 14 letters, or 2 sevens (feature 3), the sum of the figures of the  numeric value 1,569 is 21, or 3 sevens (feature 4), while the numeric value itself produces indirectly (by its neighbor 1,568) 7 x 7 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2, a multiple of seven (feature 5) sevens (feature 6), with seven factors  (feature 7).  Its seven syllables have their place-values thus: 1, 20, 13, 5, 42, 5, 33:  divided thus:  the largest place-value has 42, or 6 sevens; the others have 77,  itself 11 sevens (feature 8), with the sum of its  figures 14, or  2 sevens; divided between the units and tens by sevens (feature 9).  The 14 letters have the following place-values: 1, 2, 17, 1, 1, 12, 5, 24, 18, 4, 1, 20, 9, 4: divided thus:

  The odd numbers have  35 or 7 x 5
                           or (17 x 2)+1
  The even numbers have 84 or 7 x 2 x 2 x 3
                           or (17 x 5)-1.

This division is by sevens (feature 10) with the sum of the factors of 84 fourteen, or 2 sevens (feature 11).  But as 119 is 7 seventeens, this division produces the seventeens also-by neighborhood.  The same is the case with the first and last syllables; thus:

 First and last have 34 or 17x2
                        or (7x5)-1
 The others have     85 or 17 x 5
                        or (7 x 2 x 2 x 3)+1.

Here it is the seventeens that are direct, but the two features (12 and 13) of the sevens are produced indirectly by neighborhood.

The same division of 119 into 34 and 85 is produced in the words; thus:

    ABRAAM     has  34 or 17x2
                       or (7 x 5)-1
    The others have 85 or 17x5
                       or (7 x 2 x 2 x 3)+1

(features 14 and 15 of sevens), and this enumeration of the numerics is not exhaustive.

This elaborate design, not only of sevens but of seventeens also, is destroyed with the additional letter in DAUEID, with its place-value of 9 and numeric value of 10.

20.  The second example is from the first verse of Matthew, where David occurs for the first time in the New Testament.  It was not given first because while it is the same scheme of seventeens, the additional scheme is not of sevens, but eights.  Thus the phrase in Matthew i. 1, David, Abraham's son, has the following place- and numeric values for its three words:

            38*   419   DAUID
            64    880   UIOU
            34    145   ABRAAM
           ___   ____
           136   1444

The place-value 136, or 8 x 17, is the combination of seventeen with eight (feature 1), with the sum of the figures of the factors 16, or 2 eights (feature 2).  The common noun, son, has 64, or 8 eights (feature 3); the proper names, David and Abraham, have 72, or 9  eights (feature 4).  The units have 16, or 2 eights, of which the first has 8; and the other two also 8 (feature 5).  The tens have 120, or 8 x 3 x 5, itself 15 eights (feature 6), with the sum of its factors 16, or 2 eights (feature 7).  The letters beginning and ending the phrase have 16, or 2 eights, leaving for the others 120, or 8 x 3 x 5 (features 8 and 9), reproducing features 6 and 7.  This for the numerics of the three words with 9 features of eight, with a chance of only one in 1,200,000,000, less than one in a billion.

21.  Abraham divides the place-value 136, or 8 seventeens, thus:

       Place value   136 or 17 x 2 x 2 x 2
       ABRAAM has     34 or 17 x 2
    The others have  102 or 17 x 2 x 3.

This division is by 2 seventeens with a chance of one in 17 x 17 x 2 x 2, or one in 1156, while features 6, 7, 8, 9 of the eights produced in section 21 by the double division of 136 into 16 and 120 produce not only the eights but the seventeens at the same time; thus:

         136 is 8 x 17 or  17 x 8
          16 is 8 x 2  or (17)-1
         120 is 8 x 15 or (17 x 7)+1.

That is, 136 being the combination of eight and seventeen, the eights are produced here directly, and the seventeens indirectly by neighborhood.  And as this collocation occurs twice the chance of 1,156 for the seventeens is thus reduced 17 x 17 times, or 289 to 334,084.  But neither are the sevens left out: thus, the sum of the figures of the three place-values, 3, 8, 6, 4, 3, 4, is 28, or 4 sevens (feature 1); of which the first two words have 21, or 3 sevens; and the last has seven (feature 2); the same division is produced thus: the first and the last figures, 3 and 4, have  seven, leaving 21, or 3 sevens, for those between (feature 3).  Again:  arranging these figures in their natural order, 3, 3, 4, 4, 6, 8, the first four have 14, or 2 sevens; and the last two also 14 (feature 4).  The series 3, 8, 6, 4, 3, 4 forms, moreover, three symmetrical pairs of sevens; thus:

        First and last   7 or 7 x 1
        2 next to first 14 or 7 x 2
        2 next to last   7 or 7 x 1.

There are thus at least 5 features of sevens presented by the mere sum of six figures in the place-value of the three words  DAUID UIOU ABRAAM, with a chance of only one in 16,807.

22. The spelling DAUID is thus amply demonstrated as designed (against all the great critical editors after Griesbach), in the three passages examined, by three distinct numeric schemes.  The designs of eights and seventeens in Matthew i. 1 are reproduced in the syllables of the three words, and also in  their letters.  The patient reader may find these for himself.  Space alone hinders their being given here also.  There is no reason for doubting that the remaining 58 occurrences of David in the New Testament would manifest the same designs in the sentences where they occur, if similarly analyzed.

Section II

23. This revision departs from all other editions in the following particulars:

 (1) DEKA TESSARES and DEKA PENTE are in all their
         occurrences given as two words instead of
         DEKATESSARES, DEKAPENTE.
 (2) DI O, DI OTI instead of DIO, DIOTI.
 (3) KA N instead of KAN, KAGW, &c.
         KA GW
         KA MOI
         KA ME
         KA KEINOS, and its forms.

The case  of DEKA TESSARES is easily settled by the numerics of the first two chapters of Matthew, as the expression is found thrice in Matthew i. 17.

24. The first two chapters of Matthew are spaced off heavily by Westcott and Hort from the third chapter, as an interval of some 28 years separates them.  Now this section has 897*  words, or 13 x 23 x 3, a multiple of thirteen and twenty-three.  Accordingly it is divided thus:

 ii. 1-15 has 299* or 13 x 23 words.
 The rest of the section has 598 or 13 x 23 x 2.

This division is by 13 x 23, or 299.  In addition to this division  by 299, or 13 and 23, there are also divisions by 13 and 23 separately.  Thus:

     i. 18-25 has  161* or 23 x 7
     The rest have 736  or 23 x 32
                       (32 is reverse of 23).
     ii. 1-12 has  221* or 13 x 17
     The rest have 676  or 13 x 13 x 4.

     Genealogy from David to Christ:
     i. 6-16  has  156* or 13 x 3 x 4
     The rest have 741 or  13 x 3 x 19.

The chance for these numerics being undesigned is one in  13 x 13 x 13 x 13 x 13 x 23 x 23 x 32 or 5,700,000,000.

But this elaborate design is possible only with DEKA TESSARES as two words.

25. Of all the critical editors Westcott and Hort alone divide their text into paragraphs beginning with a new line, and sub-paragraphs without beginning a new line. Their divisions for Matthew i-ii are:

       i. 1  has   8 words
       2-6a  has  82
       6b-11 has  82
       12-16 has  74
       17    has  32
       18-25 has 161
    ii. 1-12 has 221
       13-15 has  78
       16-23 has 159
                ____
                 897

Of these nine numbers the tens have 460 or 23 x 20 words; the others have 437 or 23 x 19 words.  This division is not only by twenty-threes, but the 39 twenty-threes are divided here into 19 and 20, the nearest halves into which the uneven 39 can be divided.  This again necessitates DEKA TESSARES as two words.

26.  The discovery that the division even into sections, paragraphs, subdivisions, and sentences, is permeated with the  same designs as the text itself was made after this revision had  been partly set up.  It was thus too late to affect its divisions in this edition.  In another edition, the  writer, if spared, intends to go over Westcott and Hort's divisions, in the same manner in which their thousands of alternative readings have been tested by him.  That Westcott and Hort have not been as  fortunate in all their divisions as in Matthew i-ii is clear from 2 John, which, with its 245 words presents this:

     245* is 7 x 7 x 5
     Verses 1-7  have 140* or 7 x 5 x 4
     Verses 8-13 have 105  or 7 x 5 x 3

thus dividing the Epistle into two nearest halves by 7 x 5, or 35 - one having 35 x 4 and the other 35 x 3; but this natural, almost obvious, division was missed by Westcott and Hort.

27. Mark xvi. 9-20 (its last twelve verses) contains KA KEINOI  twice, and KA N once - in  verses 11, 13, 18.  In the special  monograph on this passage, with concordances, vocabularies, and the other needful data, are given, among many other features, these numerics of this passage:

 Words                     175* or 7 x 5 x 5
    Verses 9-11             35* or 7 x 5
    verses 12-18           105* or 7 x 5 x 3
    verses 19-20            35* or 7 x 5
 Forms                     133  or 7 x 19
   Sum figures               7  or 7 x 1
   Occurring once          112  or 7 x 16
   Occurring more than once 21  or 7 x 3
 Vocabulary                 98  or 7 x 7 x 2
   Letters                 553  or 7 x 79
   Vowels                  294  or 7 x 7 x 6
   Consonants              259  or 7 x 37
   Our Lord uses            42  or 7 x 2 x 3
   The rest use          56 or 7 x 2 x 2 x 2

These 12 features of sevens alone demonstrate the presence of elaborate design here; but this design is destroyed in every detail in which KA KEINOI and KA N enter, unless given as two words each.

28. The reader, however, can determine for himself the status of KA N and KA KEINOI, as a pair of words in each case as follows:  the number of words in Mark xvi. 9-20 he will find to be 175, or seven twenty-fives.  Taking out every twenty-fifth word (there being seven such), he will find them to be as given below, with their place-values, numeric values, and values (the sum of the place- and numeric values) preceding them; and followed by the number of their syllables and letters:

Word  25 is 106   791    897 KLAIOUSIN   3  9
word  50 is  11    21     32 KA          1  2
word  75 is 105   591    696 QEASAMENOIS 5 11
word 100 is 109 1,533  1,642 SWQHSETAI   4  9
word 125 is  11    21     32 KA          1  2
word 150 is  85   651    736 ANELHMVQH   4  9
word 175 is  88 1,113  1,201 SHMEIWN     3  7
            ___  _____  _____           __ __
            515 4,721  5,236            21 49

29. These seven words (feature 1) have 21 syllables, or 3 sevens (feature 2); 49 letters, or seven (feature 3) sevens (feature 4), with a value of 5,236, or 7 x 2 x 2 x 11 x 17, itself 748 sevens (feature 5), with seven figures in its factors (feature 6), whose sum is 21, or 3 sevens (feature 7).  This value is divided thus:

  Begin with a vowel:
    736 or (7 x 7 x 3 x 5)+1 or (11 x 67)-1
        or (15 x 49)+1
 Begin with a  consonant:
  4,500 or (7 x 643)-1   or (11 x 409)+1
        or  15 x 15 x 5 x 4
  5,236 or  7 x 11 x 68  or  11 x 476
        or (15 x 349)+1.

This division produces the direct factors 7 and 11 of 5,236, and the indirect 15 (by neighborhood), in each member of the division.  In addition, then, to the seven features of sevens, a scheme of elevens and fifteens is also found here.  But all this is destroyed unless the KA occurring twice is kept as such, and not as KAN and KAKEINOI.

An additional artistic touch is seen thus:

   Value:
    5,236 or  7 x 4 x 187
                        or 11 x 2 x 2 x 119
   End in vowel:
    2,442 or (7 x 349)-1    or 11 x 2 x 111
   End in  consonant:
    2,794 or (7 x 7 x 19 x 3)+1
                           or 11 x 2 x 127.

Again: for a time the writer was puzzled at the place-value 515 (section 28) promising no numerics, it being 103 x 5 only, with its neighbors 516 and 514 equally unpromising.   It occurred to him, however, to apply the acid test in such cases:  that of multiplying the seven place-values by their order numbers 1, 2, 3,...7.  With the result:

      106 x 1 is  106
       11 x 2 is   22
      105 x 3 is  315
      109 x 4 is  436
       11 x 5 is   55
       85 x 6 is  510
       88 x 7 is  616
      ___       _____
      515       2,060

  But               515 is  103 x 5 x 1
                  2,060 is  103 x 5 x 4
                            or (29 x 71)+1
  First and last    722 is (103 x 7)+1
  Others          1,338 or (103 x 13)-1
  Units              30 or  (29)+1
                  (note: 6+2+5+6+5+0+6 = 30)
  Others          2,030 or   29 x 70

That is, 515 being a multiple of 103, the multiplication reproduces the 103, with a scheme of its own thereof, and an additional scheme of 29.  The chance for undesign here is 103 x 103 x 103 x 29 x 29 x 5 x 5 divided by 4, or one in 5,300,000,000  - less than one in five billions.

30. The ancient manuscripts were written without any spaces between the words, and with hardly anything to guide the reader into the proper division into words in such cases as the English Godisnowhere: which may be God is nowhere to the Atheist, and God is now here to the Christian.  The discovery of Bible numerics thus brings about this result:  that even if we were in possession now of the autographs of the 66 books of the Bible by its 33 different writers, the most careful and best-equipped editor would still fail to produce a printed text that in important respects would not falsify it by destroying THE DESIGNER`S AUTOGRAPH now seen to run through its every page as the water-mark of the paper-maker shows in his every sheet.  The  previous editions of the New Testament can now be presented to the reader with the gold as it comes fresh from the mint or the jeweller himself.

31. The New Testament vocabulary stands in a definite numeric relation to the New Testament number of words; thus:

     Vocabulary has:
         5,304 words or  13 x 17 x 24.
     New Testament has:
       137,903 words
                or (13 x 13 x 17 x 24 x 2)-1

The chance for this being undesigned is one in 13 x 13 x 13 x 17 x 17 x 24 x 24, or 300,000,000.  Now the 137,903 words in the New Testament are distributed thus:

(1) Books with odd      (2) Books with  even
    numbers:                numbers:

    Acts  18,425            Matt.   18,316
    1 John 2,135            Mark    11,248
    2 John   245            Luke    19,468
    3 John   219            John    15,626
    1 Cor. 6,831            James    1,740
    2 Cor. 4,491            1 Peter  1,672
    Eph  . 2,423            2 Peter  1,098
    Phil.  1,633            Jude       456
    Col.   1,577            Rom.     7,118
    2 Thess. 819            Gal.     2,236
    1 Tim  1,593            1 Thess. 1,480
          ______            Heb.     4,978
          40,391            2 Tim.   1,240
                            Titus      658
                            Philem.    336
                            Rev.     9,842
                                    ______
                                    97,512

   But:
    137,903 is 239x577 or 577x239
                       or (13x13x816)-1
                       or (17x24x338)-1
                       or (19x19x191x2)+1

    40,391  is 239x169 or 577x70
                       or  13x13x239
                       or (17x24x99)-1

    97,512  is 239x408 or 577x169
                       or (13x13x577)-1
                       or  17x24x239.

This division between the books with odd numbers and even numbers reproduces the direct factors 239 and 577 in its members, and the indirect factors 13, 17, and 24.  The chance for this being undesigned is one in

 239 x 239 x 577 x 577 x 13 x 13 x 13 x 13
              x 17 x 17 x 24 x 24,
  one in 57,121 x 332,929 x 28,561 x 289
              x 576 or
       60,000,000,000,000,000,000,
  one in sixty billions of billions.

The change of one word from one column to the other destroys this particular design, the exposition of which would cover a large volume.  Scores of readings left uncertain by Westcott and Hort are thus disposed of with the mere turn of the hand by this one item alone.

32. The reader may now be prepared to be told that not a single question can be raised about the text of the Bible but can be settled by Bible numerics.  Thus, in the absence of punctuation in the manuscripts, numerics alone give certainty where the content leaves in many cases the proper place of a comma doubtful.  Luke xxiii. 43 is a well-known instance, where those who hold to the `Sleep of the Dead' cannot be gainsaid when they insist that the sentence should read: `Amen, I say unto thee today, thou shalt be with me in Paradise' instead of `Today thou shalt be',&c.  Numerics settle the dispute here once for all; thus:

33. Taking the second half of the verse alone, `Today thou shalt be with me in the Paradise', we have for the place-values of the seven Greek words:

        (1)               (2)
     87 SHMERON      18 x 1 or   18
     36 MET          30 x 2 or   60
     52 EMOU         36 x 3 or  108
     30 ESH          43 x 4 or  172
     18 EN           52 x 5 or  260
     43 TW           87 x 6 or  522
     95 PARADEISW    95 x 7 or  665
    ___             ___       _____
    361 or 19x19    361       1,805

The place-value of this sentence, 361, is 19 x 19, nineteen (feature 1) nineteens (feature 2).  If the seven place-values be arranged in their natural order, and multiplied by their order numbers as in (2) above, the result 1,805 is 5 nineteens (feature 3) of nineteen (feature 4); thus:

     361 is 19 x 19 x 1 or (6 x 6 x 2 x 5)+1
                        or (5 x 72)+1
   1,805 is 19 x 19 x 5 or (6 x 7 x 43)-1
                        or  5 x 361.

As 361 is (6 x 6 x 2 x 5)+1 and 1,805 is (11 x 2 x 2 x 41)+1 an elaborate scheme of sixes and elevens runs through this as well as nineteens, which the reader will with little difficulty find for himself.  But the chance for the one item alone given above is already only one in 130,321 x 6 x 6 x 6 x 25 or  650,000,000. (note: 361 x 361 = 130,321)  This alone demonstrates that the sentence above must begin with Today and not with Thou.

There remains only to be added that the entire verse 43 has an elaborate scheme of thirteens and seventeens running through it,  with nineteens running through its second half (the prime  factors 13, 17, 19 thus forming a consecutive series), with sub-schemes of sevens through each of its two sentences:  all this, however, with the comma before TODAY.

34. For convenience the conventional method of punctuation and capitalization has been adopted, but the writer does not wish to be understood as endorsing them except when numerics endorse them.  A striking case of the latter is that of elect lady in 2 John 1, where Westcott and Hort are uncertain and give the alternative Eclecta Kyria as her name.  Numerics establish `elect Kyria' as the true rendering, thus saving the word KURIA to the  vocabulary of the New Testament, which is deranged by its loss.  On the other hand, their uncertainty in Philippians iv. 3, making yoke-fellow a candidate for a person named Synzygos, is settled against adding him to the New Testament persons named therein, as this would add a word to the vocabulary.

35. The following data are now established by Bible numerics:
(1) The New Testament consists of twenty-seven books.
(2) In four divisions:  Gospels, Acts, Epistles, Revelation.
(3) In this order:  Catholic Epistles follow Acts; Hebrews between 2 Thessalonians and 1 Timothy.
(4) Written by eight writers: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, James, Peter, Jude, Paul; of whom four were Apostles:  Matthew, John, Peter, Paul.
(5) The number of its words is 137,903, distributed among the 27 books exactly as given in section 31 above.
(6) Its vocabulary has 5,304 words.
(7) The anonymous books, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, are written by the writers after whom they are named.  Acts is written by Luke; 1, 2, and 3 John are written by John; Hebrews is written by Paul.  The other 18 are written by those to whom they ascribe themselves.

36. Apart from accenting the proper syllable, the present conventional method of Greek accentuation in the New Testament has little to commend it, and in this edition has no significance.  As to the breathing-marks, the smooth breathing has no reason for its existence, except in cases like KA GW,  where, however, it is only a mark of elision.  But the rough breathing, though absent in the old manuscripts, is part of the text, since its presence or absence affects the numerics of  words with it.  Thus H, or, and H, the, are not distinguished in  the manuscripts; but in the vocabulary of forms they must appear as distinct; while W, the last letter of the Greek alphabet, and W,  the exclamation O! will appear in the vocabulary of forms as one form, though separate words in the simple vocabulary:  just as the two forms O, O would appear as one in the vocabulary of forms, though as two in the simple vocabulary, O and OS.

37. Similar is the case of the iota subscript.  Though not in  the old manuscripts, the form H is separate from H, and from H, just as W, W, W, W, present three different forms, and represent four vocabulary words.  But though the iota subscript is inserted as a separate letter in words written capitals, it has no value, place- or numeric, in the word of which it forms part:  So that the oldest manuscripts, written as they are in unicial (capital) letters, could not show the true numerics till this fact was itself brought to light by Bible numerics.  The reader is reminded of these facts to save him from the many pitfalls into which the inexperienced handler of  Bible  numerics  is likely to fall.

Neither the number of syllables, nor that of the letters of the N.T. is as yet determined.  This awaits the completion by the  writer of his vocabulary of forms, where the syllables and letters multiplied by the occurrences of the forms would be a prompt check on any error in these items of the text.  The  probability, however, of error here in serious proportion is small indeed; but certainty is to be had only by actual test.