The Power that Prevents the Rise of the Antichrist for Early Christians: Jerome (A.D. 345-20 September 420)

But what am I doing? Whilst I talk about the cargo, the vessel itself founders. He that letteth is taken out of the way, and yet we do not realize that Antichrist is near. Yes, Antichrist is near whom the Lord Jesus Christ “shall consume with the spirit of his mouth.” ...
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... For thirty years the barbarians burst the barrier of the Danube and fought in the heart of the Roman Empire. ... Yet who will hereafter credit the fact or what histories will seriously discuss it, that Rome has to fight within her own borders not for glory but for bare life ...

letter cxxiii, ch. 16 & 17, to Ageruchia

(Schaff, Philip, & Wace, Henry (Eds.), A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Second Series, Edinburgh: T & T Clark, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912, vol. 6, pp. 236, 237).