Messages to pure ones and peace-makers

In the search for encrypted messages in the monologue of Rabbi Jesus in Matthew, we have utilized the layers of numbering created by shifting subjects and restarting the word count. The shift to the seventh column is at word 1362 of the first column of 1940 words.

Previously, we showed the elegant symmetry of numbers behind the story of two "husbands" and their houses. This investigation focuses on personal messages of the Rabbi to two groups: the pure ones and the peace-makers. Both are identified by numbers ending in fours (44/444) or fives (55/555) as well as the decades/hundreds.

Word 44 of the sermon (definite article plus noun) is "the pure ones" (οἱ καθαροὶ). Seven columns are headed by numbers 333 to 999. Three nouns in three columns are each numbered 444. "Wife" (γυναῖκα) in the first (333); "the body" (τῷ σώματι) in the third (555); and "the pigs" (τῶν χοίρων) in the fifth (777).

Word 55 of the sermon is "the peace-makers" (οἱ εἰρηνοποιοί) and used only once in the Greek Testament. Only two words share 555: "the soul" (τῇ ψυχῇ) in the second (444) and the possessive pronoun "yours" in the sixth (888).

Sixteen words associated with the 444th word of the sermon are very descriptive: "Thou may betray the wife; she scandalizes and of thee, the Body, the wife of Word, thou shall give the oaths empowered to be made." [παραδῷ ὅτι γυναῖκα; σκανδαλίζει καὶ σοῦ, τὸ σῶμά, τὴν γυναῖκα λόγου, ἀποδώσεις τοὺς ὅρκους δύνασαι ποιῆσαι.]

In other words, assuming adultery as cause, she is to be divorced. Revelation 19:13 identifies a man's name as "the Word of the God" [ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ].

Twelve words between the 355th and 555th of the sermon concern the same subject: "Brother of Thee, and to brother, he did adultery of Him to thee; of members also a hand, throw to thee." [ἀδελφός σοῦ, καὶ ἀδελφῷ, ἐμοίχευσεν αὐτοῦ σοι; μελῶν καὶ χεὶρ, βάλε σοι.]

Similarities exist between the introductory subject of the messages. To the pure ones, "I say to you: not in the glory to you let care ye what we may eat; we may drink." And to the peace-makers, "I say to you: of Him as these (lilies) if to the grass of the field we may drink."

This is appropriate ritualistic language of a hierarchy not unlike the ancient gods drinking nectar and eating ambrosia (manna). Hierarchy means priest-rule.

Final say does not go to the false prophets. This compound noun is used once in the original book (chapter 24 is a redaction that uses it twice). Prophet is used thirty-eight times and "false-prophets" is the eleventh of the total. Eleven is the biblical number of incompletion (3+8=11). The number of books in the Hebrew Testament is 39.

"They shall say, 'Lord, yours from the lawlessness.'"

"Everyone of me mindful, house-roofed the house upon rock. Everyone the words and I shall liken the house sand."

The numbers behind the Lord's words are indicative of the symmetry of the construction of Matthew's book. Both sentences in the Greek text are eight words. Two words use a unique device by making two numerals count as one. "The words" and "the house" Matthew emphasizes by ordering the plural noun (τοὺς λόγους) to be 1899 in the first talk level, and the article (τὴν οἰκίαν) to be word 3588 of his book. Observant readers will immediately recognize the ingenuity of this technique.

Summing up, the pure ones are concerned about a scandalous wife and the peace-makers are concerned about an adulterous husband. Most importantly, the relation between the Body (word 444 in 555) and the Soul (word 555 in 444) is the thread weaving these two historical individuals together.

If anyone has considered the allegiance of Matthew, perhaps these numbers will be illuminating: book word 3555 is the Winds, and book word 2444 is the tax-collectors.