The Delay of the Parousia in Hippolytus

Dunbar, David

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The Antichrist

Almond¹

2020

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The Story Begins 43 Dan, the patriarch of the tribe, was the son of Jacob and Bilhah, the handmaid of Jacob's wife, Rachel (Genesis 30.1-7). 4 Irenaeus' reasons for this were twofold. First, he cited the Old Testament book of Jeremiah 8.16 as evidence for this connection. For Irenaeus, this text showed not only that the Antichrist would come suddenly, but also that 'We shall hear the voice of his swift horses from Dan; the whole earth shall be moved by the voice of the neighing of his galloping horses: he shall also come and devour the earth, and the fullness thereof, the city also, and they that dwell therein.' 5 This was something of an interpretative stretch, not least because the referent in the Jeremiah passage was clearly the city of Dan in the north of the land of Canaan rather than the tribe of Dan. 6 That said, however, and second, Irenaeus assumed that the author of Revelation was himself convinced that the Antichrist would be a Jew who would come from the tribe of Dan. It was for this reason, Irenaeus believed, that the book of Revelation had omitted the tribe of Dan from its list of the twelve tribes that would make up the 144,000 who were marked by God with a seal on their foreheads (Revelation 7.3-18). 7 It is unlikely that the author of Revelation excluded Dan from his list of tribes on account of his believing that the final enemy would

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