1 John 2:18 (WEB)
Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.
Catechism · 2
“We are already at "the last hour".” — Catechism footnote: I Jn 2:18; cf. I Pt 4:7.
“It is a time of waiting and watching.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 25:1, 13; Mk 13:33-37; I I Jn 2:18; 4:3; I Tim 4:1.
Fathers and councils · 17
Irenaeus of Lyons
“This is Antichrist.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 18, etc., loosely quoted.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
“(1 John 2:18) But what dost thou dread in Antichrist, except that he will exalt his own name, and despise the name of the Lord?” — the author cites it
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Cyprian of Carthage
“They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 18, 19.
Read the whole comment“They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 18, 19.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“The Apostle John also in his Epistle, “Ye have heard that Antichrist shall come; even now there are many Antichrists.” [1 John 2:18]” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“All these things He does at “the last hour” [1 John 2:18] coming in His members as in the clouds, or in the whole Church as in one great cloud, as now He ceases not to come.” — the author cites it
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Gregory the Great
“Of a truth it was proclaimed of old through the Apostle John, Little children, it is the last hour (1 John ii. 18), according as the Truth foretold.” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“John, likewise, saith that heretics are Antichrists, plainly marking out the Arians.” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 18 ff.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For what was there once prefigured, the same is fulfilled in every faithful one in the daily travailings of the Church, in this end of the world, in this, as the blessed John writeth, last time.” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 18.
Read the whole comment“For antichrist in our tongue means, contrary to Christ.” — editor's note: So ἀντικείμενος 2 Thess. ii. 2, 3, and so the word seems to be interpreted by Tertull. de Præscr. Hær. 4, Antichristi—Christi rebelles. And this is alleged by…
Read the whole comment“But let us hear John too; “Ye have heard that Antichrist cometh, and even now are there many Antichrists.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 18.
Read the whole comment“They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 18, 19.
Read the whole comment“From the time when He spoke even to the present, and even to the end of the world, the same one hour is passing; of which hour John saith in his epistle, “Little children, it is the last hour.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 18.
Read the whole comment“But He said, “a little while,” because that which appears tedious to men is very brief in the sight of God: for of this same “little while” our evangelist, John, himself says, “Little children, it is the last time.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 18.
Read the whole comment“For the whole of that space over which the present dispensation extends, is but a little while; and hence this same evangelist says in his epistle, “It is the last hour.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 18.
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Tertullian
“But you affirm it is “a human Antichrist:” for by this name heretics are called in John.” — editor's note: See 1 John ii. 18, 29; 2 John 7–10.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Nam si fuissent ex nobis, permansissent utique nobiscum.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 18, 19.
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Cross-references · 36
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 11.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.15.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 76.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 24:3–5 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 24:3–5 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 24:3–5 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.15.
Cited together in Catechism §670.
Cited together in Catechism §670.
Cited together in Catechism §670.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 5:41–47 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 5:41–47 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 5:41–47 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 5:41–47 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.15.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.15.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.15.
Cited together in Catechism §670.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.15.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.15.
Cited together in Catechism §670.
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 11.