Anti-christ will come when there are no longer any Christian kings to punish heretics.
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ST. BRUNO: THE RESTRAINER HOLDING BACK ANTICHRIST IS CHRISTENDOM—WHEN IT DISSOLVES, HE WILL COME
This is St. Bruno’s interpretation of the “restrainer” (katechon) in 2 Thessalonians 2 that is holding back the coming of Antichrist. He builds on a long line of thought in the Church Fathers that the “restrainer” is somehow Roman.
“I say that this Christian Empire will be dissolved because there will be no kings who will punish heretics and destroy those who lay waste to the church, nor will the world be subject in the unity of the faith to the Roman pontiff, who holds dominion (imperium) spiritually. Thus the world will fall away from both Christian empires, both secular (such as kings), and spiritual (that is, the pope)…
If he [Antichrist] would come into the world now [c. 11th century], when the majority of people obey the Roman pontiff, and when Christian kings thus far preserve the faith, he would have a beast to mount that was not ready, and he would not be able to proceed on his way. When there is such a discessio [“apostasy”], the faith will survive on the throne of Peter, even if only in a few. For the saints are said to have obtained that prayer of Christ when he said to Peter, ‘I have prayed for you, Peter, that your faith may not fail.’…
Just this restrains Antichrist, that who now holds the Christian empire and the unity of faith may hold this for so long, until iniquity, which is now secret, may be taken from among the midst, that is from among the community, that just as now faith is in public and iniquity in secret, so in the time of Antichrist faith may be in secret and iniquity in public, since his members will blush no more at acts of impurity than acts of purity, and those who have faith will be few.”
Anti-christ will come when there are no longer any Christian kings to punish heretics.
https://twitter.com/JoshuaTCharles/status/1677573687464312832
ST. BRUNO: THE RESTRAINER HOLDING BACK ANTICHRIST IS CHRISTENDOM—WHEN IT DISSOLVES, HE WILL COME
This is St. Bruno’s interpretation of the “restrainer” (katechon) in 2 Thessalonians 2 that is holding back the coming of Antichrist. He builds on a long line of thought in the Church Fathers that the “restrainer” is somehow Roman.
“I say that this Christian Empire will be dissolved because there will be no kings who will punish heretics and destroy those who lay waste to the church, nor will the world be subject in the unity of the faith to the Roman pontiff, who holds dominion (imperium) spiritually. Thus the world will fall away from both Christian empires, both secular (such as kings), and spiritual (that is, the pope)…
If he [Antichrist] would come into the world now [c. 11th century], when the majority of people obey the Roman pontiff, and when Christian kings thus far preserve the faith, he would have a beast to mount that was not ready, and he would not be able to proceed on his way. When there is such a discessio [“apostasy”], the faith will survive on the throne of Peter, even if only in a few. For the saints are said to have obtained that prayer of Christ when he said to Peter, ‘I have prayed for you, Peter, that your faith may not fail.’…
Just this restrains Antichrist, that who now holds the Christian empire and the unity of faith may hold this for so long, until iniquity, which is now secret, may be taken from among the midst, that is from among the community, that just as now faith is in public and iniquity in secret, so in the time of Antichrist faith may be in secret and iniquity in public, since his members will blush no more at acts of impurity than acts of purity, and those who have faith will be few.”