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In ancient Greek especially in gnostic texts the final letter "sigma" is actually "ϛ" in the name of Jesus was understood to be a digraph, which stood for digamma or waw, because the name was pronounced Jeshua. Digamma, waw, or wau (uppercase: Ϝ, lowercase: ϝ, numeral: ϛ) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet, which is also known as stigma after the ligature combining σ-τ as ϛ. It originally stood for the sound /w/ but it has principally remained in use as a Greek numeral for 6. As an alphabetic letter, it is attested in archaic and dialectal ancient Greek inscriptions until the classical period. Throughout much of its history, the shape of digamma/stigma has often been very similar to that of other symbols, with which it can easily be confused. In ancient papyri, the cursive C-shaped form of numeric digamma is often indistinguishable from the C-shaped ("lunate") form that was then the common form of sigma. The similarity is still found today, since both the modern stigma (ϛ) and modern final sigma (ς) look identical or almost identical in most fonts; both are historically continuations of their ancient C-shaped forms with the addition of the same downward flourish. That is how they derived it to be twenty-seven letters. It was stated in several sources that the name contained episēmon then later it became that the name is equal to episēmon and is episēmon. This letter, word, and name was connected to the number "six" through early Christian mystical numerology. According to an account of the teachings of the Marcus given by Irenaeus, the number six was regarded as a symbol of Christ, and was hence called "ὁ ἐπίσημος ἀριθμός" ("the outstanding number"); likewise, the name Ἰησοῦς (Jesus), having six letters, was "τὸ ἐπίσημον ὄνομα" ("the outstanding name"), and so on. The sixth-century treatise About the Mystery of the Letters, which also links the six to Christ, calls the number sign to Episēmon throughout. The digamma or waw stood for the three nails that caused the stigmata. What I am stating that end note number 13 is a misunderstanding of Ancient Greek Dialects spelling and numbering conventions, Ancient Christian numerology, gematria, isopsephy, symbology, and mysticism. It is clearly a biased statement against Augustine and other early Christian and Gnostic texts. Especially in consideration that the name Ἰησοῦς is an Ancient Koine Greek transliteration of the Aramaic spelling & pronunciation of Jeshua. Sources are Augustine's City of God XVIII, 23. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, i. 13. About the Mystery of the Letters (Περὶ τοῦ μυστηρίου τῶν γραμμάτων, Peri tou mystēriou tōn grammatōn)