 The Protestant contention that the apocalyptic symbols of antichrist denoted an apostate religious system were therefore set aside, as the focus of the prophecies shifted to the far distant future.Another Spanish Jesuit, Luis de Alcazar (1554-1613), published a scholarly work on Revelation to refute the Protestant view, leading to a system of interpretation which became known as Preterism (from the Latin "praeter," meaning 'past').He wrote that all the prophecies of Revelation had been fulfilled in the past (specifically by the fifth and sixth centuries A.D.).