EIGHTH ARTICLE: WHETHER ANTICHRIST MAY BE CALLED THE HEAD OF ALL THE WICKED |
Antichrist is neither the head of all the wicked as regards those that
lived before his time, since he will come only about the end of the
world, nor as regards his power of influencing them, since he cannot
have any influence on those sinners who lived before his coming; but he
is their head only by reason of the perfection of his wickedness, so
that all the wicked who preceded him are, so to speak, signs of
Antichrist.[ |