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1861 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 296 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
3. ANTICHRIST DESCRIBED AS DEFORMED MONSTER
1862 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 296.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Antichrist is frequently connected with the Dragon Monster. And we find descriptions of him which bear all the marks of a fantasy, delighting in the description …
1863 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 296.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… inscription, Antichrist.” Revelation of Esdras, in ANF, vol. 8, p. 573; see also Bousset, op. cit., p. 156.
1864 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 296.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the Antichrist was a horribly deformed monster prevailed for many centuries, and found highly developed expression in the art of the Middle Ages. In the …
1865 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 297.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the Antichrist would come from the tribe of Dan found wide acceptance among the early church fathers. We find it in Hippolytus, and more explicitly in Irenaeus …
1866 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 297.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist. We read in Pseudo Ephraem (chapter 8) that at the time of Antichrist a horrible famine will spread through the earth, the severity of which will …
1867 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 297.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
The idea that Antichrist will appear in the temple of Jerusalem, and that therefore the temple must be rebuilt, found widest currency. Thus the statement appears in Hippolytus:
1868 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 298.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
“The Saviour raised up and showed His holy flesh like a temple, and he [Antichrist) will raise a temple of stone in Jerusalem.” Hippolytus, Treatise on Christ and Antichrist, chap. 6, in ANF, vol. 5, p. 206.
1869 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 298.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… he [Antichrist] shall exalt, and dwell in the Temple that had been razed to the ground.” And Honorius of Autun states, “Antichrist shall rebuild the old Jerusalem …
1870 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 298.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist cannot possibly be based on the references to Antichrist found in the Bible. The Biblical passages nowhere permit such a detailed description …
1871 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 298.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… Antichrist? From what do they stem? The consistency with which they appear, would surely indicate that some extra-Biblical concept of Antichrist, in which …
1872 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 298.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… name Antichrist occurs for the first time in Christian literature. But the ideas associated with this name—particularly the concept of a God-opposing tyrant …
1873 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 299.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist that a number of scholars have tried to place that part of the Sibyl as being written after the time of Christ. But another Sibyl, which is undoubtedly …
1874 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 300.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… , or Antichrist. Beliar, a name which was applied to the devil, was applied in later sources to the Antichrist. (See The Martyrdom of Isaiah, chap. 2, verses 4 ff. in …
1875 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 300.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist in the thought of the first centuries. Although Second 2 Thessalonians 2 in no way depicts Antichrist as a God-opposing tyrant, but rather as …
1876 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 300.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist and Nero redivivus are one. We likewise find in the Sibyls a vivid description of the return of the Jews from their captivity beyond the Persian …
1877 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 301.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… by Antichrist; and the other, the Messiah ben David, who will be the right Messiah, and will be triumphant. These ideas, and others, are contained in the Jewish …
1878 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 320 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
9. CALLS ANTICHRIST A SON OF SATAN
1879 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 320.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the Antichrist. Cognizance is taken of the predictions of Daniel, Jesus, and Paul, but Antichrist is identified specifically as the son of the devil, the embodiment …
1880 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 323.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Antichrist, and the establishment of the kingdom. The Biblical doctrines of the early church on these points were all swept into the discard through this …