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Anti-Christ

anyone who denies the Father and the Son; or who will not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, or who, leaving the Church, pretends to be the Christ (or Messiah), and thus becomes a rival and enemy of Jesus, the true Christ.

In a special sense one who should preeminently stand forth as the antagonist of Christ, and should be a sufficiently prominent personage to become the theme of Confederate about 11,000. General Lee recrossed the Potomac on the following day, and the general consensus is that the battle was tactically indecisive.

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