In Cardinal Manning's book, The Pope and the Anti-Christ, he says that the Fathers including St. Irenaeus, St. Jerome, St. Hippolytus, St. Ambrose, St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Ephrem, St. Gregory nαzιanzen, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. John Damascene, St. Augustine, St. Gregory the Great, and St. Robert Bellarmine believed that the anti-christ will be of the Jєωιѕн race and from the tribe of Dan.