2 John 1:7 (WEB)
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
Fathers and councils · 6
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Take heed to them, that ye lose not what ye have wrought.”” — editor's note: 2 John 7, 8. Irenæus seems to have read αὐτούς instead of ἑαυτούς, as in the received text.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…the Saviour being found true, who said, I am come in My Father’s name, and ye receive Me not: but if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.” — editor's note: Ib. v. 43. Cf. 2 John 7.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“For having obtained this Gospel from others who had studied it diligently, namely, from the successors of those who first used it, whom we call Docetæ (for most of their opinions are connected with the teaching of that school) we have been able to read it through, and we find many things in accordance with…” — editor's note: By Docetism we understand the doctrine that Christ had no true body, but only an apparent one. The word is derived from δοκέω, “to seem or appear.” The belief…
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John Chrysostom
“For since there are some who say that all the circumstances of the Dispensation were an appearance, a piece of acting, an allegory, at once to remove beforehand their blasphemy, he has put “was made”; desiring to show thereby not a change of substance, (away with the thought,) but the assumption of very flesh.” — editor's note: The Docetæ, who maintained that our Lord appeared only to act and suffer in the Flesh, and that His Body was a phantom. Perhaps they are the heretics specially…
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Augustine of Hippo
“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…
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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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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 10.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 10.
Cited together in Church History VI.12.
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 11.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 10 and 1 other place.