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 英语论文网 【http://www.51lunwen.org】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 the dragon' or ‘son of the devil' (Florescu, In Search 22).
此外，在反基督者和吸血鬼共有的能力和特性之中，在术语学上也有大量相同之处。在之前提到的Left Behind系列中，反基督者的名字叫Nicolae Carpathia。Carpathia也恰好是Transylvania山区的名字。Transylvania因为德拉古拉伯爵和血腥伯爵夫人Elizabeth Bathory的缘故变得臭名昭著(Wolf 42and Florescu, In Search 156)。如果要我用一个词分别形容吸血鬼和反基督者的目的，那么将是"血"和"权力"。在希伯莱文里，血和钱的复数形式是相同的，Damîm (Strack 280)。如果说钱就是权力，那么，血和权力就能紧密的联系起来，对钱的攫取等同于对血的渴望(Strack280)。另外一个同义词的巧合来自于Wallachia的王子，臭名昭著的Vlad Tepes伯爵的别名，Dracula。在罗马尼亚语中，‘dracul'既有"恶魔"又有"龙"的意思(Florescu, In Search 22)。并且，"Dracula"有"龙的儿子"和"恶魔的儿子"的含义(Florescu, In Search 22)。
Following up on the dragon/vampire relationship, there appears a string of symbols, mostly animals, recurrent in both the vampire and Antichrist mythologies. Vlad II, Count Dracula's father, was inducted into the Order of the Dragon, "...a semi-monastic, semi-military organization dedicated to fighting the Turkish infidels" in 1431 by the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund (Florescu, In Search 22). The dragon motif was also common to the Bathory family whose crest showed a dragon encircling wolf teeth and biting its
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