to destruction, and will himself go away to the deepest perdition, Rev. xvii. 8, 11.
4. 'O avrixsipsvog, x.r.\., who opposeth, etc.) The two preceding names correspond by direct antithesis to the name of Jesus. What follows correspond by antithesis to the majesty of Christ. So Dan. xi. 36, et seqq. : Ka/ u^w^<rsra/ xai /3a0V/.£»)g s<ffi wdvra 8tbv xai eft} TOV Qsov ruv deuv, xai XaX^tfs/ And the king shall be exalted and be magnified above every god, and against the God of gods, and shall speak high-swelling words. This then is what Paul means to say: The day of Christ does not come, unless the prediction of Daniel given in these words concerning Antiochus be so fulfilled (in the Man of Sin), that it shall even be more applicable to the Man of Sin, who corresponds to Antiochus, and is worse than he ; comp. on Rev. xiii. 1, Thes. vii. § Non motnentanea, etc., " It was not by an instantaneous transformation that the Pope passed," etc., at the end. These two words, (6) avnxsiftevos xai fatpcuptfuvof [" who opposeth and exalteth himself"], stand under the one article : for it is for this reason he opposes himself, in order that he may exalt himself. He exalts himself in heart, tongue, style, and deeds, by himself and by his adherents. — eiri vdvra Xsyopsvov Qebv y ffspaffpa, above all that is called god or is worshipped) Angels are wont to be (sometimes) called gods, as are also men who possess great authority, 1 Cor. viii. 5. Above every such god, the Iniquitous one [Wicked] will exalt himself: oi/3a<r//,a is, that which is wor shipped; and the Roman Emperor is distinguished by the peculiar title, 6 2s/3a<rrog, Augustus, Acts xxv. 21. Therefore the majesty and power of Caesar, which are most conspicuous at Rome, con stitute the principal (rs/Sa^a, object of worship, on the earth. Now the Iniquitous one [Wicked] exalts himself so, as that he not only arrogates to himself greater power and worship than any one who is called god or is worshipped possesses, but also so as that every one who is called god or is worshipped is forced to be subject to him, i.e. on the earth, or is feigned to be so, so far as the inhabitants of heaven are concerned. Clement VI., in his Bull concerning the jubilee, commanded the angels of paradise to introduce the souls of those that died on their journey, being entirely set free from purgatory, into the glory of paradise. — wtfrg, x.r.7.., so that, etc.) Comprehending the spiritual and