τὸν
᾽Ηλειμυένον,
Aquila’s rendering of חישמ,
adopted by the Jews in preference to τὸν
Χριστόν, from hatred of the
name Christ or Christian. Hippolytus, ubi supra, §
6: “The Saviour came into the world in the Circumcision,
and he (Antichrist) will come in the same manner:” ib.
§ 14: “As Christ springs from the tribe of Judah, so
Antichrist is to spring from the tribe of Dan.” This
expectation was grounded by Hippolytus on Gen. xlix. 17.