False prophets] see on Matthew 24:5. Josephus speaks of 'a body of wicked men, who deceived and deluded the people under pretence of divine inspiration, who prevailed with the multitude to act like madmen, and went before them into the wilderness, pretending that God would there show them the signals of victory': see also 2 Peter 2:1; 1 John 2:18; 1 John 4:1.

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