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and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God; and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.
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Verse 3. That dissolveth Jesus, that is either by denying his humanity or his divinity. Challoner.—This is antichrist; [2] that is such is the spirit of antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, or is to come in the latter times.—And he is now already in the world, not the chief and great antichrist, but his precursors, in whom he may be said to come. Witham.—Ibid. Not in his person, but in his spirit and in his precursors. Challoner.
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