And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
But in his epistle he especially designates those as "Antichrists "who "denied that Christ was come in the flesh".
The virgin friend of Apelles. Surely he is antichrist who denies that Christ has come in the flesh.
No one has as yet escaped from Antichrist;