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Excerpt from Iohannis Wyclif Operis Evangelici Liber Tertius Et Quartus Sive De Antichristo Liber Primus Et Secundus: With Critical And Historical Notes; Vols III And IV
The word Antichrist has for Wyclif a very wide signification. According to him, every man whose teaching and whose manner of living are contrary to Jesus Christ, is Antichrist. The Pope that is not one Pope in particular, but the Papacy in general has laboured under this Opposition to Christ, ever since it became Caesarian and worldly by its secular possessions and temporal power. How little Millenarian ideas and tendencies influenced our author may be seen by the fact that, though he admits that Antichrist has reigned ever since Constantine and Pope Sylvester, he does not think that the end of the world is near, but believes this state of things to be transient, a passing stage in the development of the Church, which, as it existed centuries before Anti christ, will also outlive him in the future. Still I will not deny that the Western Schism made a considerable impression upon Wyclif. It is even demonstrated that he began to disseminate and to establish his doctrine concerning Antichrist after 1378, till he set it forth fully developed in the present work, afterwards in the unsparing language of his tract About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.