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   From: vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid   
      
   Le 04/11/2024 à 12:05, Ed Cryer a écrit :   
   >   
   > I should think that the most likely source of that "number" in "Oh When   
   > The Saints Go Marching In" is the last book of the New Testament in the   
   > Bible; the Apocalypse.   
   > That book is full of numbers; 4 and 7 occur a lot, 666 will be the   
   > number of the Antichrist (I once read that that pointed to the Roman   
   > emperor Nero, but can't recall the convoluted reasoning; something to do   
   > with the letters of Nero's name), and then, of course, the 144,000 who   
   > will be saved because of their righteousness (12,000 from each of the   
   > tribes of Israel). Those are the saints who'll go marching into heaven.   
      
   144,000 is 395 for each day of the year. That may give calendar makers a   
   problem.   
      
   > And, yeah, I'd like to be there, too, but I doubt I'm half good enough. [...]   
      
   Hobnobbing with the saintly for all of eternity? Sounds perfectly frightful.   
      
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