In ancient languages like Hebrew and Greek the letters of the alphabet had numerical significations. Totaled the letters that make up Jesus' Name in Greek come to 888!
The number 8 stands for the new beginning, as God took six days to make the world and He rested on the seventh.
7 Is the number of perfection, both of good and evil. Christ Jesus reaches beyond human perfection in that which is good; because He is not only human, but also God.
Triple 8 denotes the divine dimension, as there are three Persons in the Trinity.
In the closing verses of the Song of Songs the beloved wishes that Solomon receives the thousand silver pieces (and that 200 be for the keepers of the fruit). Now, Christ as the true Solomon has received the name above every name. So, on earth He was 888, but now He is 1000. The number 1000 is mentioned both by Job and by Solomon. Job talks about a true advocate or lawyer--one among a thousand--and Solomon speaks of a worthy man in that way. In both cases Christ is meant (Job: I know that my redeemer liveth; Solomon: I have found Messiah, but not a woman).
But in the Song of Solomon, chapter 5. 10, the bride states that her beloved "is lifted up like a banner more than 10,000 [others]." We would say that He is INFINITE. And is He not the Infinite One in Infinitudes for the Church!
Numerology of Christ over against the beast - Part II.
Numerology of Adam and Eve, the unfallen angels and Christians to be - Part III.
Numerology of the old and the new nature - Part IV.
God can fool the devil, even though He cannot lie - Part V.