original, is neuter) were cast “into a lake of fire.” Here there is evident reference to a particular person. The papacy, on the contrary, as a form of Church government, is an abstract conception, and as an expression for persons (the popes) a collective conception. Consequently, the Antichrist of Scripture cannot be the papacy in any of its two significations. (b) The Old Testament prototype of Antichrist (Antiochus Epiphanes) was a particular person, and so was his New Testament antitype (Christ);