The ghost of the priscillianism, apringio of Beja and the Apocalipse

Abstract

The writings of St. John and, specially, the Apocalypse take a long time to be used by christian writers and admited into the Canon of the Holy Scripture. In Spain the opposition to study its text and to use it lasted even more than in the rest of the christian Occident. This fact was caused, above all, by the fear of Priscillianism and the stereotype created around it by the prime writers of fifth century that considered it the "national" Spanish heresy and conected it with and obsolete Gnosticism and with tere application of the science of the numerical calculation to the biblical exegesis. Apringio of Beja intented to introduce new perspectives by writing a commentary to the Apocalipse, that anybody before him had writed in Spain.