Timing of the rise of the Antichrist according to 2 Thes. 2 (Jerome, Letters; Schaff; Wace, A Select library of Nicene and post-Nicene fathers..., 2nd ser., 1893, vol. 6)

Text: "And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:" 2 Thessalonians 2:6-8

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   16. But what am I doing? Whilst I talk about the cargo, the vessel itself founders. He that letteth 7 is taken out of the way, and yet we do not realize that Antichrist is near. Yes, Antichrist is near whom the Lord Jesus Christ “shall consume with the spirit of his mouth.” 8 [...]

7 Jerome follows Tertullian, Irenæus, and the majority of the fathers in supposing the apostle to allude to the Roman Empire. See Letter CXXI. § 11, Comm. in Hierem. xxv. 26, Comm. in Dan. vii. 7, 8.

8 Matt. xxiv. 19.

[...] For thirty years the barbarians burst the barrier of the Danube and fought in the heart of the Roman Empire. [...] Yet who will hereafter credit the fact or what histories will seriously discuss it, that Rome has to fight within her own borders not for glory but for bare life; [...]

Jerome, Letters, ltr. 123 - Ageruchia, § 16 & 17.

Schaff, Philip; Wace, Henry, A Select library of Nicene and post-Nicene fathers of the Christian church, 2nd ser., New York: The Christian Literature Company; Oxford and London: Parker & Company, 1893, vol. 6 - St. Jerome: Letters and Select Works, pp. 236, 237.

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