Iren. V. 25, § 4: “He shall
remove his kingdom into that city (Jerusalem), and shall sit in the
Temple of God, leading astray those who worship him as if he were
Christ.”
According to the genuine treatise of
Hippolytus Antichrist was to restore the kingdom of the Jews (De
Antichristo, § 25), to collect the Jews out of every
country of the Dispersion, making them his own, as though they were his
own children, and promising to restore their country, and establish
again their kingdom and nation, in order that he may be worshipped by
them as God (§ 54), and he will lead them on to persecute the
saints, i.e. the Christians (§ 56). Compare the elaborate
description of Antichrist and his cruelty in Lactantius, Div.
Inst. vii. 17; Epit. § 71.