Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers
Of the apostles of Christ, from whom he pretends to descend, and
whose successor he would be thought to be: now their God was the
Lord Jesus Christ, whom they worshipped and adored, believed in,
embraced, professed, and preached; but whom antichrist
disregards, though he would be thought to be his vicar on earth;
yet slights him, yea, opposes and acts contrary to him, in his
offices of Prophet, Priest, and King, and therefore is rightly
called antichrist: nor the desire of women;
or "wives" F16; not desirous of having wives, or
enjoying women in lawful marriage; but forbidding his priests to
marry, as is notoriously a tenet of antichrist, and foretold by
the apostle, in agreement to this prophecy, ( 1 Timothy
4:3 ) , otherwise, none more lustful or desirous of women in
an unlawful way than the Romish priests: nor regard any
god;
either the true God, and his laws, or any god in a metaphorical
sense, any king or potentate on earth; showing no respect to any
authority, or to any laws, divine or human: for he shall
magnify himself above all;
above all gods, real or nominal, as in ( 2
Thessalonians 2:4 ) .