Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
What will antichrist be like?  The usual opinions are that he shall be an individual of gigantic mental power, unbelievable audacity and the most extreme wickedness.  During the apostasy of Israel, Antiochus Epiphanes was such a person; later, after the final rejection of Christ by the hierarchy of Israel, the total profanation of the Jewish temple by a band of ruthless brigands led to the final overthrow of Judaism.  It may well be that in both those events one may behold typical foreshadowings of the final corruption and rebellion of historical Christianity, events which this writer believes to be future.  The bold and devilish deeds of some of the lesser "antichrists" who have appeared in our own times are precursors of what may come later on a vaster scale than ever.