ἀντίχριστος: Difference between revisions

{{Thayer

|txtha=ἀντιχρίστου, ὁ ([[ἀντί]] [[against]] and [[Χριστός]], [[like]] [[ἀντίθεος]] opposing God, in [[Philo]] de somn. l. ii. § 27, etc., Justin, quaest. et resp., p. 463c. and [[other]] Fathers; ([[see]] [[Sophocles]] Lexicon, [[under]] the [[word]], cf. Trench, § xxx.)), the [[adversary]] of the Messiah, a [[most]] [[pestilent]] [[being]], to [[appear]] [[just]] [[before]] the Messiah's [[advent]], [[concerning]] whom the Jews had conceived [[diverse]] opinions, [[derived]] [[partly]] from Ezekiel 38; Ezekiel 39. Cf. Eisenmenger, Entdecktes Judenthum, ii. 704ff; Gesenius in Ersch and Gruber's Encycl. iv. 292ff [[under]] the [[word]] Antichrist; Böhmer, Die Lehre v. Antichrist nach Schneckenburger, in the Jahrbb. f. deutsche Theol. vol. iv., p. 405ff The [[name]] ὁ [[ἀντίχριστος]] [[was]] formed [[perhaps]] by John , the [[only]] [[writer]] in the N. T. [[who]] uses it ([[five]] times); he employs it of the [[corrupt]] [[power]] and [[influence]] [[hostile]] to Christian interests, [[especially]] [[that]] [[which]] is at [[work]] in false teachers [[who]] [[have]] [[come]] from the [[bosom]] of the [[church]] and are [[engaged]] in disseminating [[error]]: Isaiah , '[[what]] ye [[have]] [[heard]] [[concerning]] Antichrist, as [[about]] to [[make]] his [[appearance]] [[just]] [[before]] the [[return]] of Christ, is [[now]] [[fulfilled]] in the [[many]] false teachers, [[most]] [[worthy]] to be called antichrists,' (on the [[omission]] of the [[article]] cf. Buttmann, 89 (78))); 2 John 7. In Paul and the Rev. the [[idea]] [[but]] [[not]] the [[name]] of Antichrist is [[found]]; [[yet]] the [[conception]] differs from [[that]] of John. For Paul teaches [[that]] Antichrist [[will]] be an [[individual]] [[man]] (cf. B. D. as [[below]]), of the [[very]] [[worst]] [[character]] ([[τόν]] ἄνθρωπον τῆς ἁμαρτίας (or, ἀνομίας); [[see]] [[ἁμαρτία]], 1), instigated by the [[devil]] to [[try]] to [[palm]] [[himself]] [[off]] as God: Revelation 13and Revelation 17. (Often in ecclesiastical writings.) (See B. D. [[under]] the [[word]] (American edition for [[additional]] references), [[also]] B. D. [[under]] the [[article]], Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the; Kähler in Herzog edition 2, i. 446f; Westcott, Epistles of St. John , pp 68,89.)  

}}