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Greek has numbers for its vowels. There is nothing to look for if you have a number to decode; the vowels are part of the code. Hebrew does not. Hebrew only goes to 400, so you need more than 3 letters to get 666, or 616, and then you look for the vowels. (In the Kabbalistic periods, the final letters were numbered to go to 900) If you are studying Hebrew words in Greek, realize Hebrew has 4 written H's, Greek has none. Hebrew has 2 written T's and 2 S's, Greek has only one of each. That allows for various re-spellings. All of this affects Spritural numerological thinking.
I noted that in 30 aeons broken into 18:12, the proportion is 3:2 when divided by the perfect number 6. 3:2 is the structure of Plato's universe. It is also the harmonic numbers sounded by the shofar in the traditional trumpet calls. The notes are called in Hebrew gift (3) and rest (2) and symbolize the earth and heaven in our recurrent journey. Paul would have known all this. And note IJohn 5:7-8, 3 heavenly witnesses (Father Son Spirit) and 3 earthly witnesses, but only 2, since Spirit is repeated. The same pattern 3:2 is the pattern of Plato, the Hebrew trumpet based musical system, and John's verse. All these old ideas would have been known to Paul. If we take the new idea that 18 is Jesus, 12 the 12 tribes or apostles, the journey and the fundamental relationships of heaven/earth, being 3:2 become the statement Jesus (as named iE, the part of His name that comes from Yahweh) is the heavenly cause, and earth is the structure established by His Cross, either as the church the new Israel, or as the church founded on the 12 apostles. Paul speaks of saying nothing beyond "Christ (18) and Him crucified (300)" and thus creates Christian family (318). Could he have failed to notice this, and failed to have mentioned it to his companions, though not for teaching to others.
I noted that in 30 aeons broken into 18:12, the proportion is 3:2 when divided by the perfect number 6. 3:2 is the structure of Plato's universe. It is also the harmonic numbers sounded by the shofar in the traditional trumpet calls. The notes are called in Hebrew gift (3) and rest (2) and symbolize the earth and heaven in our recurrent journey. Paul would have known all this. And note IJohn 5:7-8, 3 heavenly witnesses (Father Son Spirit) and 3 earthly witnesses, but only 2, since Spirit is repeated. The same pattern 3:2 is the pattern of Plato, the Hebrew trumpet based musical system, and John's verse. All these old ideas would have been known to Paul. If we take the new idea that 18 is Jesus, 12 the 12 tribes or apostles, the journey and the fundamental relationships of heaven/earth, being 3:2 become the statement Jesus (as named iE, the part of His name that comes from Yahweh) is the heavenly cause, and earth is the structure established by His Cross, either as the church the new Israel, or as the church founded on the 12 apostles. Paul speaks of saying nothing beyond "Christ (18) and Him crucified (300)" and thus creates Christian family (318). Could he have failed to notice this, and failed to have mentioned it to his companions, though not for teaching to others.