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The Bibleâ??s scariest number â?? 666 â?? occurs in Revelation 13:17-18, a famously perplexing passage in Scriptureâ??s most perplexing book. (If youâ??re superstitious, note thatâ??s in chapter 13.) â??The International Bible Commentaryâ? recounts that assorted preachers have identified 666 as the Pope, Muhammad, Muslim warrior Saladin, King Charles I, Charlesâ??s enemy Oliver Cromwell, King George III of American Revolution fame, Napoleon, Hitler, Mussolini, Anwar Sadat, Moshe Dayan, Saddam Hussein, Henry Kissinger, Sun Myung Moon, Mikhail Gorbachev, and U.S. Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
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