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Antichrist

The great adversary expected to rise against Christ before the end

The Antichrist is the eschatological adversary who opposes Christ before the end. The figure draws on the letters of John, 2 Thessalonians 2, and Revelation, and was treated early by Hippolytus. Christians have interpreted the Antichrist's identity and timing in widely differing ways, and some traditions have made polemical identifications of particular figures. Such identifications are tradition-specific and should not be stated as established fact.

How it traveled

  1. 2 Thessalonians
    Corinth · 67
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  2. Matthew
    Antioch · 80
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  3. Revelation
    Patmos · 100
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  4. 1 John
    Ephesus · 100
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  5. Against Heresies: Book V
    Lyons · 202
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  6. On the Resurrection of the Flesh.
    · 220
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  7. Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John
    · 303
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  8. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
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  9. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  10. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  11. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  12. Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  13. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  14. The Book of Pastoral Rule, and Selected Epistles, of Gregory the Great
    Rome · 604
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  15. John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
    Damascus · 749
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  16. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
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  17. Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church
    Geneva · 1564
    applies
  18. A History of the Work of Redemption
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    explains
  19. Christ Exalted
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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τὸν ᾽Ηλειμυένον, Aquila’s rendering of חישמ, adopted by the Jews in preference to τὸν Χριστόν, from hatred of the name Christ or Christian. Hippolytus, ubi supra, § 6: “The Saviour came into the world

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1 John · John the Apostle

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Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

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1 John · John the Apostle

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Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

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2 Thessalonians · Paul the Apostle

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Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

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2 Thessalonians · Paul the Apostle

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he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

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I am far from pretending to determine the time when the reign of Antichrist began, which is a point that has been so much controverted among divines and expositors. It is certain that the twelve hundr

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THE SUCCESS OF REDEMPTION FROM THE REFORMATION TO THE PRESENT TIME. Thus having gone through the dark time of the church, I come now to consider that part which begins with the Reformation, and reach

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Further, it was prophesied, that this Antichrist should reign over peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues, Rev. xvii. 15. and that all the world should wonder after the beast, Rev. xiii. 3.

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The work of conversion shall go on in a wonderful manner, and spread more and more. Many shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, one multitude after another continually, as in Isa. lx. 4, 5.

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Against Heresies: Book V · Irenaeus of Lyons

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1. In the previous books I have set forth the causes for which God permitted these things to be made, and have pointed out that all such have been created for the benefit of that human nature which is

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Against Heresies: Book V · Irenaeus of Lyons

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1. And not only by the particulars already mentioned, but also by means of the events which shall occur in the time of Antichrist is it shown that he, being an apostate and a robber, is anxious to be

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Against Heresies: Book V · Irenaeus of Lyons

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1. Inasmuch, then, as in this world (αἰῶνι) some persons betake themselves to the light, and by faith unite themselves with God, but others shun the light, and separate themselves from God, the Word o

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Against Heresies: Book V · Irenaeus of Lyons

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1. Such, then, being the state of the case, and this number being found in all the most approved and ancient copies 2. These men, therefore, ought to learn [what really is the state of the case], and

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24. It is not with a bishop as with a king; the latter, though he does not execute the proper duty of a king, nevertheless retains the title and the honour; but in deciding on a bishop respect is had

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Chapter 53.—Of the Hidden Time of the Final Persecution. Truly Jesus Himself shall extinguish by His presence that last persecution which is to be made by Antichrist. For so it is written, that “He s

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Chapter 52.—Whether We Should Believe What Some Think, That, as the Ten Persecutions Which are Past Have Been Fulfilled, There Remains No Other Beyond the Eleventh, Which Must Happen in the Very Time

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Chapter 23.—What Daniel Predicted Regarding the Persecution of Antichrist, the Judgment of God, and the Kingdom of the Saints. Daniel prophesies of the last judgment in such a way as to indicate that

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Chapter 19.—What the Apostle Paul Wrote to the Thessalonians About the Manifestation of Antichrist Which Shall Precede the Day of the Lord. I see that I must omit many of the statements of the gospel

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Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John · Victorinus

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1. “And I saw a beast rising up from the sea, like unto a leopard.”] This signifies the kingdom of that time of Antichrist, and the people mingled with the variety of nations. 2. “His feet were as th

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Gen. viii. 16. 2 Kings ii. 11. Ibid. iv. 34. Ibid. ii. 14. Ibid. ii. 9. Dan. iii. 20. Ibid. vi. 16. Ex. xix. 15; Num. vi. 2. The precept of the law, therefore, is to be taken in a more spiritu

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