Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V For if it had been declared by Him, he (Antichrist) might perhaps continue for a long period. But now as "he was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the abyss, and goes into perdition,"[260] Shepherd of Hermas Vision Fourth proceeded. But the size of that beast was about a hundred feet, and it had a head like an urn.[7]