515 does not appear in the Bible and carries no biblical meaning. It has a famous prophecy attached to it — but the prophecy is Dante’s, not Scripture’s, and that is a better story than the one most pages tell. Dante’s 515 At the end of the Purgatorio, Beatrice delivers a prophecy about a coming deliverer who will destroy a corrupt power. She does not name him. She says: un cinquecento diece e cinque — a five hundred, ten and…

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