14.  And who is this, and from what sort of working?  Interpret to us, O Paul.  Whose coming, he says, is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders 2 Thess. ii. 9.  Lactantius (a.d. 300 circ.), Div. Inst. vii. 17:  “that king.…will also be a prophet of lies; and he will constitute and call himself God, and will order himself to be worshipped as the Son of God; and power will be given him to do signs and wonders, by the sight of which he may entice men to adore him.”  Cf. Epitome, lxxi.; implying, that Satan has used him as an instrument, working in his own person through him; for knowing that his judgment shall now no longer have respite, he wages war no more by his ministers, as is his wont, but henceforth by himself more openly “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.”.  And with all signs and lying wonders; for the father of falsehood will make a show φαντασιοκοπεῖ.  See above, § 10, note 9, and the equivalent phrase in § 17:  σημείων καὶ τεράτων φαντασίας ἐδείκνυον. of the works of falsehood, that the multitudes may think that they see a dead man raised, who is not raised, and lame men walking, and blind men seeing, when the cure has not been wrought.