Irenaeus, a great writer in the second century after Jesus, gave a long discussion of the Antichrist at Christ's Second Coming.

He wrote, "For he [Antichrist] being endued with all the power of the devil, shall come, not as a righteous king, but as an unjust and lawless one; as an apostate, murderous and as a robber, concentrating in himself satanic apostasy, and setting aside idols to persuade that he himself is God, raising himself as the only idol, having in himself the multifarious errors of the other idols."