ACC ~ Mark 13 v22a

THE PRETENSE OF TRUTH

ORIGEN: While Antichrist is generically one, there may be many species of him. It is as if one would say that falsehood is generically one, but according to the differences of false doctrines there are found many specific falsehoods. … “If possible” is a hyperbole. For he did not suggest or indicate that even the elect are to be thrown into error, but wishes to show that often the words of the heretics are exceedingly plausible and have power to move even those who hear them wisely. Every word professing to be truth while not the truth, whether among gentiles or barbarians, is in a sense Antichrist, seeking to mislead as though the truth, and to separate from the One who said, “I am the truth.” [1] COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 46. [2]

[1] Jn 14:6.

[2] PG 13:1668-9; AEG 5:143-44*.