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:Right...but your exegesis is shaky, the LORD, here is (clearly) using a metaphor show how bad sin is, i.e. because He punishes it for such a long time. To those that remain steadfast He is ever-loving. To read dates and prognosticate from those dates invites error. [[User:BrumbleB|BrumbleB]] 14:51, 23 September 2007 (EDT)
:Right...but your exegesis is shaky, the LORD, here is (clearly) using a metaphor show how bad sin is, i.e. because He punishes it for such a long time. To those that remain steadfast He is ever-loving. To read dates and prognosticate from those dates invites error. [[User:BrumbleB|BrumbleB]] 14:51, 23 September 2007 (EDT)
::Oh, I'm not so sure God doesn't just mean exactly what is said there--there are many other Biblical references to a thousand generations, in Deuteronomy 5:9-11 and 7:8-10, and in 1 Chronicles and Psalms as well, specifically saying God will keep the covenant "for a thousand generations".... God could just as easily have said 500, or 10,000 generations (we are only now fewer than 70 generations away from Jesus, and maybe 120 away from Mount Sinai) if there were to be a larger or smaller number of generations counted, but there ''must'' be at least a thousand, and probably can be no more.... I wonder even if those thousand generations are traced from the lineage of a particular person.... [[User:Pandeism|Pandeism]] 23:58, 23 September 2007 (EDT)
::Oh, I'm not so sure God doesn't just mean exactly what is said there--there are many other Biblical references to a thousand generations, in Deuteronomy 5:9-11 and 7:8-10, and in 1 Chronicles and Psalms as well, specifically saying God will keep the covenant "for a thousand generations".... God could just as easily have said 500, or 10,000 generations (we are only now fewer than 70 generations away from Jesus, and maybe 120 away from Mount Sinai) if there were to be a larger or smaller number of generations counted, but there ''must'' be at least a thousand, and probably can be no more.... I wonder even if those thousand generations are traced from the lineage of a particular person.... [[User:Pandeism|Pandeism]] 23:58, 23 September 2007 (EDT)
==Number of the Great Beast==
In the section on popular culture, this article says works based on Revelation give the number of Satan as 666. It could also add that although for a long time it was believed that the number of the Great Beast described at the end of Revelation Chapter 13 was 666, it is now believed this is a mistranslation, and the number was actually 616. [[User:Carltonio|Carltonio]] ([[User talk:Carltonio|talk]]) 03:00, 22 April 2020 (EDT)