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Latest master summary of Bible dateline meters, with links to all the related docs and videos: http://www.brainout.net/LukeDatelineMeters.pdf

CNTTS apparatus in Bibleworks 9: two [bracketed] verse 4 variants count, due to:

1. many witnesses
2. cadence fits
3. and style: variance unit #7's eleos, and unit #17's kuriou.

Many manuscripts omit kai fronting eirene; omission doesn't alter count, since krasis is assumed. The other variants aren't worth mention.

#	Verse	Syllables	Cumulative
1	Παῦλος δοῦλος θεοῦ,	6	6
	ἀπόστολος δὲ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ	9	15
	κατὰ πίστιν ἐκλεκτῶν θεοῦ	9	24
	καὶ ἐπίγνωσιν ἀληθείας	9	33
	τῆς κατ᾽ εὐσέβειαν	6	39
2	ἐπ᾽ ἐλπίδι ζωῆς αἰωνίου,	9	48
	ἣν ἐπηγγείλατο ὁ ἀψευδὴς θεὸς	12	60
	πρὸ χρόνων αἰωνίων,	6	66
3	ἐφανέρωσεν δὲ καιροῖς ἰδίοις	10	76
	τὸν λόγον αὐτοῦ ἐν κηρύγματι,	10	86
	ὃ ἐπιστεύθην ἐγὼ	7	93
	κατ᾽ ἐπιταγὴν τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν θεοῦ,	13	106
4	Τίτῳ γνησίῳ τέκνῳ κατὰ κοινὴν πίστιν,	13	119
	χάρις [ἔλεος] καὶ εἰρήνη ἀπὸ θεοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν	14	133
	καὶ [κυρίου] Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν.	14	147

Paul writes in 4172, 66 AD = the Lord's should-have-been age, summer. Paul writes at or near the end of the vernal year:

• 119 ÷ 2 = 59.5 years after Judaea became a Roman province; when Paul writes, Nero has just ordered Vespasian to assemble legions and march to Rome, so to put down the new rebellion against Florus in Jerusalem. Or, perhaps the rebellion didn't start yet, and Paul writes prophetically: for the rebellion occurs, in the summer of 66 AD.
• 119 ÷ 2 years before year 4232 (covered in Zecharias' prophecy);
• 119 years after 53 BC, when Crassus sacked the Temple in Jerusalem. This resonates, as Paul had already benchmarked Temple Fall for 70 AD in Ephesians, and of course the new rebellion which will fulfill that Ephesians metered prophecy, is just beginning. So past is prologue.
• 119 years before 4291, and ~
• 133 ÷ 2 = 66.5 years after The Lord should have been born (equidistantly converting to vernal)
• 133 ÷ 2 years before 4238.5
• 133 years after 67 BC, when (the usurper Maccabean line resulting in) Hyrcanus II comes to power; so usurpation II is in the offing due to the new rebellion against Rome, get the pun? And ~
• 133 years before 4305
• 119 means trouble, 133 means Temple going down due to apostasy, and 147 means triple diaspora (same meter Paul used in Galatians) = 49 x 3. So Paul doesn't meter, until the end; when he does, the trebled meters are negative and dramatic. Setting up, the letter's content: which warns about false teachers, and how to spot and appoint, the right ones. For Titus is Paul's missionary COO. The translation of this epistle is awful, hint hint: where the translation says 'good deeds', the Greek says God Deeds via anarthrous nouns, just as James had done; so the Greek meaning is the opposite of the English. Which helps you see why Paul prophetically warns against false teachers: for they mistranslate Bible for centuries, even today not fixing the errors – despite all our modern technology, translations remain bad?? Sorry, no excuse!