Starting from the renowned Franciscan Pierre Jean-Olieu (Olivi) (+ 1298), a typical forerunner of the biblical Antichrist emerges from medieval eschatological literature, namely a first Antichrist emerges from medieval eschatological literature, namely a first Antichrist, pointed out by the sources with the one or the other of these two terms indistinctly; "misticus-mysticus" and "mixtus-mistus". The great scholar R. Manselli, considering them as opposed terms or, at least, as different terms or, at least, as different terms, retained as valid that of "misticus-mysticus" and coined that of "mixtus-mistus" as an error of some transcriber or typographer.
In the present study: 1) information is given of a document yet unknown which makes the use of the term "mixtus-mistus" go back to the beginning of the VXth century; 2) it is observed that "misticus" (with an i) and "mixtus-mistus" have the same derivation (from miscere = "to mix") and the same meaning; 3) finally, one concludes that "mixtus-mistus" and "misticus" (not mysticus) express indistinctly and precisely "The concept" of the first Anti-Christ, whom all the sources in full agreement represent as a hypocritical character, a simulator, mixed with iniquity and virtue.
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