What temple then? He means the temple of the Jews which has been destroyed. For God forbid that it should be the one in which we are! [He means the church itself.—Editors.]-“Catechetical Lectures,” sec. 15, On 2 Thessalonians 2:4; “Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers,” Vol. VII, p. 108. New York: The Christian Literature Company, 1895. HBS 10.3
But this aforesaid Antichrist is to come when the times of the Roman Empire shall have been fulfilled, and the end of the world is now drawing near. There shall rise up together ten kings of the Romans, reigning in different parts perhaps, but all about the same time; and after those an eleventh, the Antichrist, who by his magical craft shall seize upon the Roman power; and of the kings who reigned before him, “three he shall humble,” and the remaining seven he shall keep in subjection to himself.—Id., p. 109. HBS 10.4