237 staat niet in de Bijbel — maar de betekenisloze getallen doen ertoe

237 is not in the Bible. No verse contains it, no pattern is built on it, and any page assigning it a meaning has invented one. That is a short answer, so it is worth spending the space on the better question underneath it: why does Scripture bother with numbers at all? The Bible’s strangely specific figures Scripture is full of counts that serve no symbolic purpose and are recorded anyway. Simon Peter drags the net ashore and John writes:…