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Webster 1828 Edition


Anti-christ

AN'TI-CHRIST

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Noun.
[Gr. against, and Christ.]
A great adversary of Christ; the man of sin; described
1John 2:18. 2Thess. 2. Rev. 9. Protestants generally suppose this adversary to be the Papal power; and some divines believe that, in a more general sense, the word extends to any persons who deny Christ or oppose the fundamental doctrines of christianity.