4. Number of the Cavalry

‘‘And the number of the hosts of the cavalry was two myriads of myriads” — theo muriathes muriathon. This is the symbolical number of the four angel-powers — two myriads of myriads hippikou of cavalry — equestrian myriads. The number is enormous when literally stated; but, however great, is in strict accordance with the truth of history. A myriad is ten thousand. But this must be multiplied by two, for there are “two myriads,” or twenty thousand. In the phrase “two myriads of myriads,” this twenty thousand becomes the multiplier of “myriads,” which is the multiplicand. If muriathon, genitive plural, is to be taken as one myriad of ten thousand, then the “two myriads of myriads” will represent two
hundred millions, or twenty thousand ten thousands. These 200,000,000 must not be taken as the numeration of the angel-hosts at any one time; but as the aggregate of the equestrian forces of the four angel-powers in all the 391 years and 30 days of the killing period — their numbers were computed by millions.