id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-604 Nero - Wikipedia .html text/html 13416 1584 72 Some modern biblical scholars[150][151] such as Delbert Hillers (Johns Hopkins University) of the American Schools of Oriental Research and the editors of the Oxford Study Bible and Harper Collins Study Bible, contend that the number 666 in the Book of Revelation is a code for Nero,[152] a view that is also supported in Roman Catholic Biblical commentaries.[153][154] The statement concerns Revelation 17:1–18, "the longest explanatory passage in Revelation", which predicts the destruction of Rome by work of an eight emperor who was also one of the seven kings of the most extended and powerful empire ever known in the human history: according to this lecture, Babylon the Great is identified with Rome[155] which has poured the blood of saints and martyrs (verse 6) and subsequently become the seat of the Vatican State, reigning over all the kings existing on Earth. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-604.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-604.txt