“Vid. Iren. Hær V. 26,
2” (R.W.C.). The passage is quoted by Eusebius (Eccl.
Hist. iv. 18), from a lost work of Justin M. Against
Marcion: “Justin well said that before the coming of
the Lord Satan never dared to blaspheme God, as not yet knowing his own
condemnation, because it was started by the prophets in parables and
allegories. But after our Lord’s advent having learnt
plainly from His words and those of the Apostles that everlasting fire
is prepared for him,.…he by means of such men as these blasphemes
the Lord who brings the judgment upon him, as being already
condemned.”
S. Cyril seems to expect that Antichrist
will be an incarnation of Satan, as did Hippolytus (de Antichr.
§ 6): “The Saviour appeared in the form of man, and he
too will come in the form of a man.”