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41) Oberman argues that Luther's understanding of the apocalyptic Day of Judgment began to coalesce around 1520 and that, "as the assiduous reader of Augustine and Bernard, Luther knew that after the first phase of persecutions in the Roman Empire, and the second phase of attacks by heretics assailing the Church from without, in the third phase the enemy would come from within, when the Antichrist would successfully disguise himself as the vicarius Christi.
By the 17th century the vicar, or the vicarius, was the one who acted instead of or as the substitute for the rich absentee incumbents - courtiers - who would claim the income of several parishes they had never even visited but paid cleric vicars a tenner a year for doing the work for them.
They added the Roman numerals in VICARIUS FILII, one of the Pope's titles, to obtain 666, the number of the Beast in Revelation 13:18.
 
 
 
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