RE: The Bible is God's Word [Letter, Village News, 7/22/10]

Infinite numbers of seemingly miraculous computations are found in numerical analysis of text. Assign values for English letters using the same pattern used in Ivan Panin’s analysis of Arabic, Greek and Hebrew:

A=1 B=2 C=3 D=4 E=5 F=6 G=7 H=8 I=9 J=10 K=20 L=30 M=40 N=50 O=60 P=70 Q=80 R=90 S=100 T=200 U=300 V=400 W=500 X=600 Y=700 Z=800

Now analyze the first line of Poe’s “The Raven”: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.” There’re 7x7 letters. First and last words sum to 202x7; the first letters contribute 80x7.

Consonants in words starting with a consonant sum to 5...