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861 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, the Epistles Of, Part 4-9.31

… of Antichrist, it is not difficult to suppose that the Presbyter should write to such a person in such a strain. Nor does there seem to be anything especially …

862 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Lawless.2

… the Antichrist, that "wicked (lawless) one" ( 2 Thessalonians 2:8 ).

863 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Lie; Lying.9

… the Antichrist who denies that there is a Christ; the false Christ affirms himself to be the Christ. Of course there is a sense in which the man of sin will be …

864 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Literature, Sub-apostolic, 1.80

… of Antichrist, who is designated the World-deceiver. Without definitely stating chiliastic doctrine, the writer suggests it; for in referring to the immediate …

865 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Lod; Lydda.5

… the antichrist" (quoted by Guy le Strange, Palestine under the Moslems, 493). It was rebuilt by the Crusaders; but was destroyed by Saladin after the battle of …

866 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Man of Sin.4

… of Antichrist (see ANTICHRIST; BELIAL; compare Bousset, Der Antichrist, 93 ff, etc.). This view will not satisfy those who believe in the reality of Paul’s apostleship …

867 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Mark.17

… of Antichrist, stamped on the forehead or right hand ( Revelation 13:16; compare Ezekiel 9:4, 6 ). It was symbolic of character and was thus not a literal or physical …

868 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Mauzzim.2

… as "Antichrist"! Grotius thought it a corruption of "Azizos, the Phoenician war-god, while Calvin saw in it the "god of wealth"! Perhaps the buzz of conjectures about …

869 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Millennium, Premillennial View.30

… , the Antichrist. For this foe has both an apocalypse and a parousia like Christ Himself. Hence, the lifting of the restraint is sudden, by no means a prolonged …

870 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Mystery.7

… the Antichrist. Here, too, the word means a revealed secret, only in this case the revelation belongs to the future ( 2 Thessalonians 2:8 ), though the evil forces …

871 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Nero.42

… of Antichrist. In Ascension of Isaiah 4:1 - 6 (1st century AD), the Antichrist is clearly identified with Nero: "Belial shall appear in the shape of a man, the king …

872 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Parousia.22

… the antichrist ( 1 John 2:18, 22; 4:3; 2 John 1:7; 2 Thessalonians 2:8 - 10; Revelation 19:19; compare Baruch 36:8 - 10; Sib Or 3:63-70, and see ANTICHRIST ), who will gather all nations …

873 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Parousia.24

… the Antichrist as many persons and all of them ordinary human beings ( 1 John 2:18 - 19 ).

874 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Perdition.3

… the Antichrist ( 2 Thessalonians 2:3 ). This is the well-known Hebrew idiom by which a person typically embodying a certain trait or character or destiny is called …

875 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Revelation of John.30

… as Antichrist" (compare Revelation 17:10 f). The key to the whole book is said to be given in Revelation 13:18, where the number of the beast is declared to be 666 …

876 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Revelation of John.102

… as Antichrist. This rejects the plain intimations of the book that the events predicted lay, in their beginnings at least, immediately in the future of the …

877 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Revelation of John.103

… become Antichrist (see above). Tacitus attests that there were vague rumors that Nero had not really died (Hist. ii.8), and later a pretender arose in Parthia taking …

878 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Zoroastrianism.20

… SATAN; ANTICHRIST. (3) presents a problem that still needs proper analysis. The Zoroastrian abstractions may well have stimulated Jewish speculation. But …

880 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Antichrist.2 (William Smith)

… is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son”; and still more positively, “every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of …