Mark of the Beast | names of Antichrist

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"It has often been learned historically, both from Apollonius and others, that demons speak through wooden statues, animals, trees, and water by means of sorcery, I think even through dead bodies just as Simon Magus showed to the Romans a dead person moving in the presence of Peter, even though the apostle refuted the deception himself to show, through those whom he himself Peter raised, how the dead were raised. Therefore, there is nothing unreasonable for even the adjutant of the Antichrist, working through demons to make an image for the beast and show it speaking, and to prepare and to destroy those who do not worship it. And the mark of the destructive name of the Apostate he will earnestly endeavor to put on all: on the right hand in order to cut off the doing of good works, and on the forehead in order to teach the deceived ones to speak boldly in error and darkness. But the ones marked with divine light on their faces will not accept it. And he will make it his business to extend the symbol of the beast everywhere, in both buying and selling so that a violent death will be suffered from lack of necessities by those who do not receive it. The exact sense of the numerical cipher, as well as the of the things written regarding this, time and experience will reveal to those who live soberly.
For, as some of the teacher say, if it were necessary to know clearly such a name, the one who had beheld it would have revealed it. But divine grace was not well pleased to set down the name of the destroyer in the divine book. As in exercises in logic, many names are to be found contained in this number, according to the blessed Hippolytus and others, both proper nouns and common nouns. First, proper nouns, such as “Lampetis," "Teitan," through the diphthong, forming the future of the verb, according to Hippolytus, and likewise “Lateinos," just as “Benedict” is interpreted as “one who is blessed” or “blessed” perhaps in imitation of the truly blessed one, Christ our God. Then common nouns "wicked guide,” “real harm,” “slanderer of old," "unjust lamb”—these he will be called by those opposing his deception, rendering the appropriate “opinion in shame."

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