The reader knows already that in the anti-pauline book of Revelation :
666 = Nero.
Was Nero a follower of Paul the Apostle?
Philippians 4:22
All God’s people here send you greetings, especially those who belong to Caesar’s household
This may explain why Nero was considered guilt of the arson just as the Chrestiani. The people accused him as Chrestianus himself. Nero was moved velim nolim to distance himself from the sect. By persecuting even more hardly the sectarians.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
The hatred of the author of Revelation against a pauline Nero could be the same hatred of the Judaizers against the paulines (known in Rome as followers of CHRESTUS) that leads to the expulsion of the paulines under Claudius.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.