John Trapp on Revelation 13:18

Verſe 18. Here is wiſdome] That is, Work for wiſdome: as ver. 10. Here is the patience and faith of Saints.

It is the number of a man] Such as a man, by ſearch, may finde out, if he have his wits about him, as we ſay. Others ſenſe it thus: the whole number of the Beaſt, whatſoever is numbred to belong unto him, is but the number of a man; humane in ventions and will-wiſdome.M▪ Cotton, Men will have it ſo, and this is the ſumme of all Popiſh Religion.

Six hundred threeſcore and ſix] Amongſt the many conjectures, that of [non-Latin text not transcribed], ſeems to me moſt probable, as moſt ancicent and authentike. The year of Romes tuine is by ſome held to be 1606.Bernard[illegible: 1 letter]s oſſ[illegible: 1 letter] verat Antichr[illegible: 1 letter] ſtum ſuturum meridianum demonem: [illegible: 1 word] a meridie erit, & ibi ſedebit. In Cant. ſer. 33. Tis plain, ſaith one, Satan ſhall be tied up 1000 years: 666 is the number of the beaſt, Antichriſt ſhall ſo long raign: theſe two together make the juſt number.