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.

 (i) It may be that the anointing means the coming of the Spirit upon the Christian in baptism. In the early Church that happened in the most visible way ( Acts 8:17). If in this passage we were to substitute the Holy Spirit for anointing we would get excellent sense. 