Tyconius was an early-fourth-century Donatist, a sect taking a hard line against Christians who had publicly recanted during the reign of Diocletian (Donatists coined the word "traitor", meaning "one who hands over", to describe Christians who gave up their copies of scripture to Roman authorities).
Tyconius' Commentary on the Apocalypse would influence his fellow north African St. Augustine (at least in the latter's views of the apocalypse - since Augustine was anti-Donatist). In the commentary, Tyconius urged what Augustine would later call a "spiritual" (figurative) reading of Daniel and Revelation. This included the denial of a "millennium" in which Christ will rule bodily on earth. In fact, the spiritual or amillennialist interpretation of Revelation tended to see its prophecies as already having come true - or as continually coming true, in the form of a perpetual allegory of the human spirit. Tyconius also described the Antichrist as being not a living man, but a principle, a sum of the opponents to Christianity in history.
