"Antichrist, the son of perdition will be born in Corozain,
will be brought up in Bethsaida and shall begin to reign in
Capharnaum, according to what Our Lord Jesus said in the Gospel:
"Woe to thee Corozain ... woe to thee Bethsaida ... and thou
Capharnaum that art exalted up to heaven, thou shalt be thrust
down to hell. (Luke, 10:13) Antichrist shall work a thousand
prodigies on earth. He will make the blind see, the deaf hear,
the lame walk, the dead rise, so that even the Elect, if
possible, shall be deceived by his magical arts. Puffed up with
pride, Antichrist shall enter in triumph the city of Jerusalem
and will sit on a throne in the Temple to be adored as if he were
the Son of God. His heart being intoxicated with arrogance, he
will forget his being a mere man, and the son of a woman of the
tribe of Dan." (St. Zenobius)
"Christ arose from among the Hebrews, and he (Antichrist)
will spring from among the Jews. Christ showed His flesh as a
Temple, and raised it up on the third day; and he, too, will
raise up again the Temple of stone in Jerusalem." (St.
Hippolytus)
"Antichrist will be born of Jewish parents, of the tribe of
Dan, but his mother will not be a virgin, as many believe. As
the Holy Ghost came into the heart of Mary, so will the devil
enter into the mother of Antichrist, and his diabolical power
will always support him. Babylon will be his birthplace, but he
will be reared and instructed in Bethsaida and Corozain. After
his education at the hands of malignant spirits he will go to
Jerusalem and place his seat in the Temple which he will have
restored. He will submit to the rite of circumcision, claiming
that he is the Son of the Omnipotent God. His first converts
will be kings and princes. His influence will extend from sea to
sea, largely through force and persuasive eloquence. He will
perform many signs and great miracles. Those who believe in him
will be marked on the forehead with a sign. For three and a half
years he will hold sway and, at the end of that period, he will
put to death Henoch and Elias, who will have previously opposed
him by preaching the true faith. Shortly afterwards, Christ will
appear, and Antichrist will be killed by Michael the Archangel."
(Adso the Monk, 10th Century)
"This impious man ... will give orders that he himself shall
be worshipped as God. For he will say he is Christ, though he
will be His enemy. That he may be believed he will receive the
power of doing wonders, so that fire may descend from heaven, the
sun retire from its course and the image which he shall have set
up may speak. And by such prodigies he shall entice many to
worship him, and to receive his sign on their hands or foreheads.
And he who shall not worship him and receive his sign will die
with refined tortures. Thus he will destroy nearly two parts,
the third will flee into desolate solitudes. But he, frantic and
raging with implacable anger, will lead an army and besiege the
mountains to which the righteous shall have fled. And when they
shall see themselves besieged, they will implore the help of God
with a loud voices and God shall hear them, and shall send to
them a Deliverer ..." (Lactantius)
"One day we asked St. Martin of Tours about the End of the
World, and he said that Nero and the Antichrist would come first.
Nero would subdue ten kings and rule in the countries of the
West. A persecution he was to impose would go so far as to
require the worship of heathen idols. Antichrist would first
seize the empires of the East; he would have Jerusalem as his
seat and imperial Capital. Both the city and its temple were to
be rebuilt by him. His persecution would require the denial of
Christ's divinity (he himself pretending to be Christ) and would
by law impose circumcision on all. Finally, Nero himself was to
perish at the hands of Antichrist. In this way, the whole
world and its peoples would be brought under his yoke, until, at
Christ's coming, the impious imposter would be overcome."
(Sulpicius Severus)
