Moffatt(i)
18 Children, it is the last hour. You have learned that 'Antichrist is coming.' Well, but many antichrists have appeared — which makes us sure it is the last hour.
19 They withdrew from us, but they did not belong to us; had they belonged to us, they would have remained with us, but they withdrew to make it plain that they are none of us.
20 Now, you have been anointed by the holy One, and you all possess knowledge.
21 I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and know that no lie has any connexion with the truth.
22 Who is the real liar? who but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is 'antichrist,' he who disowns the Father and the Son.