John in his first Epistle, 4:3, “Every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God; and this is the spirit of Antichrist.” The other mark is expressed in the words of our Saviour ( Matt. 24:5), “many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ”; and again (verse 23), “If any man shall say unto you, lo! here is Christ, and there is Christ, believe it not.” And therefore Antichrist must be a false Christ; that is, some one of them that shall pretend themselves to be Christ. And out of these two marks, “to deny Jesus to be the Christ,” and “to affirm himself to be the Christ,” it followeth, that he must also be an “adversary of Jesus the true Christ,” which is another usual signification of the word Antichrist. But of these many Antichrists, there is one special one, ὁ Αντίχριστος