Computed: Ἰησοῦς = 10+8+200+70+400+200 = 888. Also 888 = 3 × 296, the three eights of the ogdoad being the point rather than the factorisation.
Eight hundred and eighty-eight is the number of the name Jesus in Greek isopsephy, asserted in the Sibylline Oracles and set against 666 in the tradition's imagination ever since. The three eights are read as the ogdoad — the eighth day, the resurrection, the number beyond the seven of the week — so that the figure becomes a doctrine as much as a total. It is the most quoted number in Christian number-symbolism and the one with the least arithmetic behind it.
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