Yo! Kolo.
When you get done thrashing those four Turks who didn't know you were Greek when they started the fight, could you give us a run down on Rev 13:18 and the numeral presented to us as Xhi Xi Stigma, where "stigma" is described as an obsolete Greek character?
I'd never heard of it, but it is in my Greek Lexicon of the NT, and I've been busily asserting with the kind of certainty that nearly always accompanies ignorance that it don't exist.
Dang, now I’m all frazzled.. I mean “Chi Xi Stigma”
Professional training as a problem solver occasionally comes in useful.
I’m not extremely well versed in stigmata, judging from the list provided of some well known “joyous sufferers” is it true that as a group the one thing that would be in common with them is “Catholic Mystics”
(Individuals so emptied of ego in themselves that they have allowed Jesus Christ to fill them to capacity?)
The Greek in the Byzantine text, which is what we use and is the oldest extant, is "ἑξακόσια ἑξήκοντα ἕξ", nothing like "Ξ Χ Σ" or "ξ χ σ (or ς)" "ς" as a capital is a Byzantine form of Σ, or as a lower case letter it is used in place of "σ" at the end of a word. The Church in the East has never had much use for revelations, as you likely know. The code +John uses, and in some cases its "616" instead of "666", is for someone's name but as early as 100 years after it was written, it seems no one knew what the code meant. An undigested bit of beef is my bet.