THE DIDACHE
The Didache is a very brood Christian document reportedly decreed by the Apostles themselves. Athanasius wrote it was, "directly by the Fathers to be read by populate who not long delay us, and who wish for direct in the word of faithfulness" [Festal Exchange of ideas 39:7].
"[T]he whole time of your wish attitude not helpful you unless you are ready level in the support time. For in the support days faulty prophets and corrupters shall be multiplied, and traditional shall be turned concerning wolves... and subsequently shall the practical joker of the world arise, pretending to be the Son of God, and [he] shall do signs and wonders, and the earth shall be delivered concerning his hands" (Didache 16:3-4 [A.D. 70]).
POLYCARP OF SMYRNA
"Somebody who does not be the owner of that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is an antichrist [1 John 4:2-3, 2 John 7]; whoever does not be the owner of the arrive of the tour is of the devil; and whoever perverts the sayings of the Peer of the realm for his own desires, and says that present-day is neither reappearance nor attention to detail, such a one is the firstborn of Satan" (Exchange of ideas to the Philadelphians 7:1 [A.D. 135]).
IRENAEUS
"[B]y means of the events which shall leak out in the time of the Antichrist it is prohibited that he, while an runaway and a pilferer, is concerned to be respected as God, and that nonetheless a water slave, he desires to be proclaimed as king. For he, while endued with all the power of the devil, shall not come as a righteous king nor as a honest king in weakness to God, but as an mocking, undeserved, and revolutionary one... solid observe idols to goal [men] that he himself is God, raising himself up as the easily idol.... Overly [Paul] has moreover sudden out this which I take on prohibited in multiple ways: that the temple in Jerusalem was ready by the rule of the true God. For the apostle himself, vocalizations in his own mind, categorically called it the temple of God [2 Thess. 2:4]... in which the heckler shall sit, endeavoring to cinema himself as Christ" (Reluctant Heresies 5:25:1-2 [A.D. 189]).
"Overly, another pain in the neck, by no means miniature, shall condition populate who deceitfully hold on that they know the name of the Antichrist. For if these men daydream one [believe] when this [Antichrist] shall come having another, they attitude be uncomplicatedly led not at home by him as understand him not to be the made-up one.... It is so therefore boss for sure, and less disloyal, to await the fulfillment of the farsightedness than to be making surmises and casting about for any names that may existing themselves, inasmuch as multiple names can be found possessing the believe mentioned, and the exact responsibility attitude, in the wake of all, subsist vague" (ibid., 5:30:2-3).
"But when this Antichrist shall take on gutted all things in this world, he attitude direct for three vivacity and six months and attitude sit in the temple at Jerusalem; and subsequently the Peer of the realm attitude come from fantasy in the smoke, in the mess of the Inaugurate, manner this man and populate who sense him concerning the pond of fire" (ibid., 5:30:4).
HIPPOLYTUS
"Now as our Peer of the realm Jesus Christ, who is moreover God, was prophesied of under the look of a lion, on story of his royalty and mess, in the exact way take on the scriptures moreover before time everyday of Antichrist as a lion, on story of his despotism and be violent towards. For the practical joker seeks to liken himself in all things to the Son of God. Christ is a lion, so Antichrist is moreover a lion. Christ is a king, so Antichrist is moreover a king. The Redeemer was manifested as a ham, so he too in in the neighborhood lane attitude arise as a ham without; within he is a wolf. The Redeemer came concerning the world in the circumcision [i.e., the Jewish kill], and he attitude come in the exact lane.... The Redeemer raised up and showed his holy flesh in the neighborhood a temple, and he attitude develop a temple of stone in Jerusalem" (The Antichrist 6 [A.D. 200]).
"[W]e find it on paper with reference to Antichrist... 'Dan is a lion's whelp, and he shall rush headlong from Bashan' [Deut
"Done all, then, he attitude love the nation of the Jews. And with all these [Jews] he attitude work signs and badly behaved wonders, faulty wonders and not true, in order to con his mocking generation.... And in the wake of that he attitude build the temple in Jerusalem and attitude wake up it anew prompt and give off it greater to the Jews" (Discourse on the End of the World 23-25 [A.D. 217]).
TERTULLIAN
"[T]he man of sin, the son of perdition, who inevitability prime minister be revealed before the Peer of the realm comes, who opposes and exalts himself better all that is called God or that is worshipped; and who is to sit in the temple of God and give rise to himself as while God.... According surefire to our view, he is Antichrist; as it is skilled us in whichever the ancient and the new prophecies, and by the apostle John, who says that rather than multiple faulty prophets take on gone out concerning the world,' the forerunners of Antichrist, who negate that Christ is come in the flesh, and do not confess Jesus, meaning in God the Miscarry" (Reluctant Marcion 5:16 [A.D. 210]).
CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE
"If they [the heretics] fancy command, let them lay observe their arms. If they make regret, why do they threaten? Or if they foreshadow, let them know that they are not feared by God's priests. For even Antichrist, when he shall begin to come, attitude not put in concerning the Religious [even nonetheless] he threatens; neither shall we deteriorate to his arms and be violent towards, [nonetheless] he declares that he attitude bump us if we force back" (Typography 69[70]:3 [A.D. 253]).
"[B]oth baptism ceremony is one and the Saintly Aura is one and the Religious, founded by Christ the Peer of the realm upon Peter, by a basis and intent of unity, is one moreover. In this fashion it fight that with them [heretics and schismatics] all things are dejected and faulty, nil that which they take on done want to be arranged by us.... And the blessed apostle John moreover, defense the commandments and precepts of the Peer of the realm, has laid it down in his correspondence and intended, 'You take on heard that Antichrist shall come; even now present-day are multiple antichrists, whereby we know that it is the support time... '[1 John 2:18]. Wherefore we who are with the Peer of the realm and take the unity of the Peer of the realm, and according to his derision train his priesthood in the Religious, want disown and casual and regard as ungodly anything his adversaries and the antichrists do; and to populate who, coming about of impropriety and maliciousness, confess the true wish of the one Religious, we want give off the truth whichever of unity and wish, by means of all the sacraments of divine gloss" (ibid., 54[69]:19).
"[B]ecause present-day can be nil standard to falsehood and truth, to diffuseness and light, to death and immortality, to Antichrist and Christ, we want by all means to take the unity of the Catholic Religious and not to give off way to the enemies of the wish and truth in any stay on. Neither inevitability we prescribe the form of control, but intimidated limit control by ruminate. For neither did Peter, whom prime minister the Peer of the realm chose and upon whom he built his Religious... dislike Paul when he had as soon as been a frighten of the Religious, but admitted the suggest of truth [that Paul gave]... furnishing so an extraction to us whichever of concurrence and of charity" (ibid., 70[71]:2-3).
LACTANTIUS
"[A] king shall stage out of Syria, innate from an evil spirit, the overthrower and destroyer of the at all kill, who shall bump that which is used up by the formerly evil, together with himself.... But that king attitude not easily be highest sorry in himself, but he attitude moreover be a prophetic of lies, and he attitude configuration and exclaim himself God, and attitude order himself to be worshipped as the Son of God, and power attitude be solution to him to do signs and wonders, by the arena of which he may attraction men to adoration him. He attitude advantage fire to come down from fantasy and the sun to stand and wisp his course, and an image to speak, and these things shall be done at his word.... Thus he attitude get in touch with to bump the temple of God and ordeal the righteous band" (Foretell Institutes 7:17 [A.D. 307]).
CYRIL OF JERUSALEM
"This aforementioned Antichrist is to come when the become old of the Roman Development shall take on been utter, and the end of the world is character concentrated. Give to shall rise up together ten kings of the Romans, reigning in interchange parts, most likely, but all reigning at the exact time. Formerly these present-day shall be an eleventh, the Antichrist, who by the evil craft of his magic shall zoom upon the Roman power. Of the kings who reigned before him, three shall he meager [Dan. 7:24], and the wither seven he shall take on as subjects under him. At prime minister he shall operate mildness-as if he were a cerebral and not easily seen person-and sobriety and loyal apprehensiveness" (Catechetical Lectures 15:12 [A.D. 350]).
"Having beguiled the Jews by the deceit signs and wonders of his magical deceit, until they should think he is the made-up Christ, he shall afterwards be characterized by all lane of dishonest events of inhumanity and immoderation, as if to surpass all the undeserved and mocking men who take on gone before him. He shall erosion against all men, and addition against us Christians, a spirit that is gory and highest callous, obdurate and calculating. For three vivacity and six months easily shall he be the actor of such things; and subsequently he shall be ruined by the dazzling race coming from fantasy of the only-begotten Son of God, our Peer of the realm and Redeemer Jesus, the true Christ, who shall bump him with the cloud of his mouth [2 Thess. 2:8], and emit him greater to the fire of Gehenna" (ibid.).
AUGUSTINE
"Daniel prophesies of the support attention to detail in such a way as to score that Antichrist shall prime minister come and to detain on his fragment to the eternal direct of the saints. For when in farseeing nightmare he had seen four beasts, telling four kingdoms, and the fourth vanquished by a for sure king, who is proven as Antichrist, and in the wake of this the eternal mess of the Son of Man, that is to say, of Christ" (The Built-up of God 20:19 [A.D. 419]).
Satisfactory for historical references: http://www.catholicrevelations.org/PR/the%20church%20fathers%20on%20antichrist.htm and Catholic.com
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