The Antichrist and the False Prophet: Unveiling of the Personages in the Book of the Apocalypse of St John

Fathers of the Church > On Christ and Antichrist (Hippolytus)

49. By the beast, then, coming up out of the earth, he means the kingdom of Antichrist; and by the two horns he means him and the false prophet after him. And in speaking of the horns being like a lamb, he means that he will make himself like the Son of God, and set himself forward as king. And the terms, he spoke like a dragon, mean that he is a deceiver, and not truthful.

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The great dragon, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world

Cf. Rev 12:9 (RSVCE)

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The First Beast rising out of the sea: his image

The First Beast=a fallen angel=idol/god Osiris over Egypt=the cultivatable land & the Nile united in one concept

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The First Beast rising out of the sea: his Mark

The crook and flail (heka and nekhakha)

The Mark of The Beast "X"

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The Second Beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns

Horn One: The Antichrist

Antichrist Franciscus

Horn Two (After the Antichrist): The False Prophet

Leo PP. XIV [Robert Francis Prevost] | 8.V.2025 -