第7篇为"‘反基督者从黑且深的地缝中走出，到那被魔鬼诅咒之地去'" (Bousset 152，­153)。此外，他的"毁灭之子"的别号，也大概指的是他来自于地狱，或某个类似的地下世界(Bousset152)。类似的，吸血鬼在上升到地面之后，也不得不回到那个世界去补充力量，并躲避危险的阳光(Florescu, In Search153)。事实上，在最开始，墓碑的作用就在于给新的坟墓压上重的石头，以阻止尸体从墓中爬出，成为吸血鬼(Wright 13)。用这种用石头封印坟墓的方法来自于基督自己的葬礼，虽然这无法限制住基督自己。

Perhaps due to their demonic nature, both the vampire and the Antichrist are born of and rule in darkness. Satan himself has often been described as having fallen into darkness after his fallout with God:
也许因为吸血鬼和反基督者的恶魔本性，他们都生于黑暗，统治于黑暗。撒旦自己也经常被描述为被上帝击败后堕入黑暗的：

The fall of the Damned One began again. —Terrible, Dark, and pierced with bright holes, like a sieve, The sky, filled with suns, receded; clarity Trembled as, through the night the outcast fell Naked, sinister, weighed down by his crime, Fell, and his head, like a wedge, pried open the abyss. Lower. Lower. Always lower....

—Very well, cried Satan. Let it be so! I can still see! He will have the blue sky, I will have the black.

And the sun was already no more than a star.

—Victor Hugo

"La Fin de Satan" (Wolf 40)

这个被诅咒者的堕落又开始了。——恐怖，黑暗，被刺穿出无数的明亮的孔，就像那筛子，天空倒退着，被太阳充满；空气战栗着，邪恶的被驱逐者因他所犯下的罪，无所依凭地从夜空中坠落，他的脑袋，倒栽入无底的深渊。堕落，堕落，永远堕落......

——很好，哭泣的撒旦。就这么着好了。我依然能看见！他拥有蓝天，而我还拥有暗夜。

从此太阳不再仅仅是一颗星。

                                        ——维克多·雨果

                                             《撒旦的末日》（Wolf 40）（译注，瞎翻的，活活）

The Pseudo-Johannine Apocalypse 6 reminds us of the Antichrist's relationship to this banishment saying he is "'...born of darkness...'" (Bousset 137-138). The Bible also refers to a being of the night that disappears or sleeps during light hours:

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,

Nor of the arrow that flies by day,

Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,

Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

—Psalm 91:5-6

Pseudo-Johannine Apocalypse 6提醒我们反基督者和naci驱逐之间的关系，说他"‘出生于黑暗'" (Bousset 137-138)。圣经也提到有一种在有光明的时候消失或休眠的夜的存在：

你必不怕黑夜的惊骇，

或是白日飞的箭。

也不怕黑夜行的瘟疫，

或是午间灭人的毒病。

          ——诗篇 91：5-6

The devil resides in hell and reigns there during the day, but"...when day is done, the night is his empire" (Florescu, In Search 153). Webster's International Dictionary describes a vampire as a "re-animated body of a dead person" that goes around at night and sucks the blood of people sleeping (Wright 1).
恶魔居住在地狱，并在白天时统治着它，但是"......当白昼尽时，夜晚就是他的帝国" (Florescu, In Search 153)。韦氏国际辞典形容吸血鬼为"死人的第二次生命"，他们在夜晚活动，并吸食睡眠者的血液(Wright 1)。

In addition to the shared powers and traits of the Antichrist and vampire, there are also a number of similarities in terminology. As mentioned before in reference to the Left Behind series, the Antichrist figure is named Nicolae Carpathia.  Carpathia also happens to be the name attributed to the mountainous region of Transylvania from which came the notorious Count Dracula and the blood countess Elizabeth Bathory (Wolf 42and Florescu, In Search 156). If I were to assign one word to best describe the goal of each the vampire and the Antichrist it would be for blood and power respectively. In Hebrew, the words for blood and money are the same in their plural forms, Damîm (Strack 280). Assuming that money is in fact power, a relationship between these two goals is made in which the gaining of money is equivalent to the thirst for blood (Strack280). Another coincidental synonymy of terms comes from the nickname given to the notorious Count Vlad Tepes, Prince of Wallachia, a.k.a. Dracula. In Romania, ‘Dracul' means both ‘devil' and ‘dragon' (Florescu, In Search 22). Furthermore, ‘Dracula' means ‘son of t

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