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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And exalteth himself against all that is called God or is worshiped." For he will not introduce idolatry, but will be a kind of opponent to God; he will abolish all the gods, and will order men to worship him instead of God, and he will be seated in the temple of God, not that in Jerusalem only, but also in every Church. "Setting himself forth," he says; he does not say, saying it, but endeavoring to show it. For he will perform great works, and will show wonderful signs.
Cyril of Jerusalem
Who opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God, or that is worshipped; (against every God; Antichrist forsooth will abhor the idols,) so that he seateth himself in the temple of God. What temple then? He means, the Temple of the Jews which has been destroyed. For God forbid that it should be the one in which we are! Why say we this? That we may not be supposed to favour ourselves. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
"Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped." He will not lead people to idol worship; on the contrary, he will reject all gods and all objects of their veneration, or idols, and will declare himself alone to be god. "So that he will sit in the temple of God as God." It is not said: in the Jerusalem temple specifically, but simply: "in the temple," in every temple of God. …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: `This will be he who is called Antichrist,' exalting himself," as the apostle says, "above all that is called God, and that is worshipped." The Lord, declaring that this same it is that will seek his own glory, not the glory of the Father, says to the Jews: "I am come in my Father's name, and ye have not received me; another will come in his own name, him ye will receive." He intimated that they would receive Antichrist, who will seek the glory of his own name, puffed up, not solid; …
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, "who opposes", he explains what he said before. And first, he shows how he will be the man of sin; second, how he will be the son of perdition, at "and then that wicked one shall be revealed." And first, he foretells his wrongdoing; second, he gives the cause for it, at "and now." And first, he describes the wrongdoing; second, he says that he is not announcing a new teaching, at "do you not remember." And first, he sets out the wrongdoing; second, the sign of it, at "so that." Now his wrongdoing has two sides to …
Bonaventure
In the second mystery, that of the punishment of crimes, the Antichrist is represented by Nemrod who was the first to make himself emperor, and under whose command a tower was built that was to reach up to heaven. By this it may be seen that the Antichrist would be filled with the greatest pride, to the point of being "exalted above all that is called God."
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