St. Bruno of Cologne (c. 1030-1101), Medieval Monk

(Updated June 26, 2025)

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Biblical Commentary

St. Bruno of Cologne, Commentary on 2 Thessalonians¹

QUOTE ARCHIVE | Christendom: The Spiritual and Temporal Powers, and the Conversion of the Empire | Antichrist, Katechōn, Jerusalem, the Conversion of the Jews, and the Temple

If he [Antichrist] would come into the world now, 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, the faith will survive on the throne of Peter, even if only in a few. For the saints are said to have obtained the prayer of Christ when he said to Peter, “I have prayed for you, Peter, that your faith may not fail” (Luke 22:32)… 199 | 201

Just this restrains Antichrist, that who now holds the Christian empire and the unity of the 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 (in communi) 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.

Footnotes

1. Kevin L. Hughes, Constructing Antichrist: Paul, Biblical Commentary, and the Development of Doctrine in the Early Middle Ages (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2005), 199, 201. Quoting from PL 153.419A and PL 153.420A. ↩︎