[4] It is not necessary to decide whether the epistle is by St Paul or by a pupil of Paul, although the former seems to the present writer to be by far the more probable, in spite of the brilliant attack on the genuineness of the epistle by Wrede in Texte und Übersetzungen, N.F. ix. 2.
[5] Cf. 2 Thess. ii. 8; the Targum also, in its comment on the passage of Isaiah, applies “the wicked” to Antichrist.
[6] See Bousset, Kommentar zur Offenbarung Johannis, on these passages.
[7] Ibid. ch. xvii.: and Charles, Ascension of Isaiah, lvii. sq.
[8] Harnack, Chronologie der altchristlichen Literatur, i. 573
[9] See Bousset, in Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklop. für Theologie und Kirsche (ed. 3), xviii. 273 &c.
[10] Latin text by Sackur, cf. op. cit. 1 &c.; Greek text by V. Istrin.
[11] See Bousset, Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, xx. p. 289 &c.
[12] Published in Merx, Archiv zur Erforschung des Alten Testament.
[13] See especially the Ludus de Antichristo, ed. W. Meyer.