The "number of the beast" is indicated in the text by the Greek letters "{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER XI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}" which were severally used to represent the numbers 600, 60 and 6, making 666. As the name of the beast is equivalent to this number, the letters in it will represent numbers which amount to six hundred threescore and six.
After the division of the Roman empire, the western kingdom adopted for itself the name of the Latin kingdom; and its subdivisions were called the Latin kingdoms. The church connected with those kingdoms was also emphatically called the Latin church. Says Dr. More: "They Latinize everything. Mass, prayers, hymns, litanies, canons, decretals, bulls, are conceived in Latin. The Papal councils speak in Latin. Women pray in Latin. The Scriptures are read in no other language under the Papacy than Latin. In short, all things are Latin." The Council of Trent declared the Latin Vulgate to be the only authentic version of the Scriptures; and their doctors have preferred it to the Hebrew and Greek text, written by prophets and apostles.
This Latin kingdom is the only one that ever corresponded to the characteristics of the beast. And its name--_Latinos_ in the Greek, and _Romiith_ in the Hebrew--is equivalent to the required number.
"The Greek and Hebrew letters composing the words { ~HEBREW LETTER RESH~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER MEM~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER YOD~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER YOD~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER TAV~}, _Romiith_--{ ~HEBREW LETTER RESH~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER MEM~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER AYIN~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER NUN~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER SHIN~}, _Romanus_--{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}, _Latinos_, each of them making in numerals exactly 666, plainly point out not only his name, and the number of his name, but also the _mark_ of his _name_; as for example:
in { ~HEBREW LETTER RESH~} { ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~} { ~HEBREW LETTER MEM~} { ~HEBREW LETTER YOD~} { ~HEBREW LETTER YOD~} { ~HEBREW LETTER TAV~} _Romiith_; so likewise 400 10 10 40 6 200 = 666 { ~HEBREW LETTER RESH~} { ~HEBREW LETTER MEM~} { ~HEBREW LETTER AYIN~} { ~HEBREW LETTER NUN~} { ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~} { ~HEBREW LETTER SHIN~} _Romanus_; and also 300 6 50 70 40 200 = 666 the Greek { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} _Latinos_, 30 1 300 5 10 50 70 200 = 666.