By Ruth Hurmence Green
The Bible tested from a freethought point of view. mixed with autobiographical "The publication of Ruth."
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7, where it is interpreted5 (see Table 1A). In this way one observes that v. 7, which mentions the name YHWH, reaches the number 39. And 39, or 26 + 13, is the sum-total of the letters of this name: 10 + 5 + 6 + 5 = 26 plus those of the Hebrew numeral one, אחד, that is 1 + 8 + 4 = 13. 6 Table 1B on the other hand illustrates the fact that the 45 words of v. 1–2 and v. 7 28, moreover, is a perfect number8 and, as noted before, the triangular number of seven. In the central section, v. 3–4 and v.
Nowadays we have our algebra to prove the thesis just mentioned. But one may also, in the way of the “geometrical mathematics” of the ancients, use one’s pebbles, make a square—or, if you prefer, a lozenge—with a side of n elements, to be called ABCD, and count the elements contained in the triangle ABC. This is a triangle with three sides of n elements, by definition the triangular number of n. The triangle that is left, almost but not quite covering ADC, has a side of n–1, because the corner elements at A and C are part of the other, larger triangle ABC.
12 For example, while οὐδαμῶς (“by no 10 Menken also thinks Matthew’s expression for “pregnant” (ἐν γαστρὶ ἕξει) comes from the revised LXX, the original reading being ἐν γαστρὶ λήμψεται. However, both Rahlfs and Ziegler think that ἐν γαστρὶ ἕξει is original, which neither adds nor subtracts from the evidence for Menken’s position. 11 29x in Matthew, compared with 5× in Mark and 18× in Luke. More significantly, Matthew has a tendency to add it to his sources, as in Matt 12:50 (Mark 3:35); 13:12 (Mark 4:25); 19:29 (Mark 10:29); 21:33 (Mark 12:1); 21:41 (Mark 12:9); 27:55 (Mark 15:40).