I would suggest you stick to the scripture, my friend, not that it will help you either, but history is the last place you should be going to try and prove a pretrib rapture.
There is a mountain of evidence for a singular second coming (post-trib) in the ECF...and you know it. But you dishonestly brush them off with the back of your hand.
The bogus Pseudo-Ephraem being guide, these others you cite, except for the Shepherd of Hermes, are just as bogus.
Go to this link:
http://answersinrevelation.org/on_antichrist.pd
For just a few excerpts from the ECF on this...including the Shepherd of Hermes.
Speaking of which, from the Shepherd:
“Happy ye who endure the great tribulation that is coming on, and happy they who shall not deny their own life. For the Lord hath sworn by His Son, that those who denied their Lord have abandoned their life in despair, for even now these are to deny Him in the days that are coming.”
I am not going to get into a poop sling with you, so you can stop trying to insult me into some game you want to play.
dead link...want to try again
By the way, for whatever reason I see the link didn’t work on my post 103. Here’s the website it came from:
http://answersinrevelation.org/
For anybody interested, click on the the icon with the ECF fellow on it, click on his “rapture” icon also, it has a lot of good arguments against the pretrib rapture.