It should be known that the Antichrist is bound to come. Every one, therefore, who confesses not that the Son of God came in the flesh and is perfect God and became perfect man, after being God, is Antichrist 1 St. John ii. 22.. But in a peculiar and special sense he who comes at the consummation of the age is called Antichrist Iren., bk. v. ch. 25; Greg. Naz., Orat. 47.. First, then, it is requisite that the Gospel should be preached among all nations, as the Lord said St. Matt. xxiv. 14., and then he will come to refute the impious Jews. For the Lord said to them: I am come in My Father’s name and ye receive Me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive St. John v. 43.. And the apostle says, Because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved, for this cause God shall send them a strong delusion that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness 2 Thess. ii. 10, 11, 12.. The Jews accordingly did not receive the Lord Jesus Christ who was the Son of God and God, but receive the impostor who calls himself God Chrys., Hom. 4 in Epist. 2 Thess.. For that he will assume the name of God, the angel teaches Daniel, saying these words, Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers Dan. xi. 37.. And the apostle says: Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition: who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God 2 Thess. ii. 3, 4., shewing himself that he is God; in the temple of God he said; not our temple, but the old Jewish temple Cyril of Jerusalem, Cat. 15.. For he will come not to us but to the Jews: not for Christ or the things of Christ: wherefore he is called Antichrist Iren., Cyril Hieros., Catech. 15; Greg. Naz. loc. cit..