First, therefore, it is necessary that the Gospel should be preached among all nations St. Matt. xxv. 14.: And then shall that wicked one be revealed, even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders Text has πέρασι ψεύδους, instead of the received text, τέρασι ψεύδους, cf. infr., with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, whom the Lord shall consume with the word of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming 2 Thess. ii. 8, 9, 10.. The devil himself Jerome on Daniel, ch. vii., therefore does not become man in the way that the Lord was made man. God forbid! but he becomes man as the offspring of fornication and receiveth all the energy of Satan. For God, foreknowing the strangeness of the choice that he would make, allows the devil to take up his abode in him Chrys., Hom. 3 in 2 Thess..