I LOVE GEMATRIA: If you look at Psalm 89:37 (concerning the moon) and if you multiply like this: 8x9x3x7=1512 If you then divide 1512 / 7 it comes to 2160. The diameter of the moon.
That's a cool 'coincidence'. It is most unlikely the writer of the psalm knew about the numbering it would later receive at the time of writing. However, the numerical patterns and 'coincidences' of gematria have a regular habit of defying superficial 'logic'. At a deeper level, there are genuine mysteries at work - everything is connected..
Good question. I believe the iota subscript is provides an alternative rather than a fixed rule for counting. In this way it operates a bit like the final letter counts in Hebrew (ךםןףץ). The higher values of those letters seem to have been added in the medieval period, and thereafter those letters could be counted at their original values (20, 40, 50, 80, 90) or the higher values (500, 600, 700, 800, 900).
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I LOVE GEMATRIA:
If you look at Psalm 89:37 (concerning the moon) and if you multiply like this: 8x9x3x7=1512
If you then divide 1512 / 7 it comes to 2160. The diameter of the moon.
That's a cool 'coincidence'. It is most unlikely the writer of the psalm knew about the numbering it would later receive at the time of writing. However, the numerical patterns and 'coincidences' of gematria have a regular habit of defying superficial 'logic'. At a deeper level, there are genuine mysteries at work - everything is connected..
Why don't you count the iota subscripts in τῷ and κόσμῳ?
Good question. I believe the iota subscript is provides an alternative rather than a fixed rule for counting. In this way it operates a bit like the final letter counts in Hebrew (ךםןףץ). The higher values of those letters seem to have been added in the medieval period, and thereafter those letters could be counted at their original values (20, 40, 50, 80, 90) or the higher values (500, 600, 700, 800, 900).